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.
The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.
The fun for me musically is that you never quite know what works and why. So why pretend you do? Why not just put things together and discover, in the creative process, if and why they work? That approach has served me well.
Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.
A good poet feels what his community feels. _x000D_ Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.
What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
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