Adam Gopnik Quotes

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

In the world it is little comprehended what love is; and yet it is man's very life. That this is little comprehended is evident from the common saying "What is love?" What it is, is not known for the reason that love is not manifest to the understanding, and the understanding is the receptacle of the light of heaven.

The best writing is certainly when you are in love

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

Love is, without question life's greatest experience.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.