Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
Interpretation
Focus on the small and meaningful rather than the grand and overwhelming.
In this quote, Hemingway encourages us to appreciate the beauty and significance of smaller, more intimate works of art instead of being dazzled by grandiose creations. He implies that skillful artists can express profound ideas not just through large canvases, but also through smaller, more personal pieces that convey depth and emotion.
In practice
This quote could be used in an art class to encourage students to appreciate smaller, detailed works.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.
Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads β as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
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