John Logan Quotes

Playwright

John Logan, born on September 24, 1961, is a renowned playwright. His works span across various mediums including theater, film, and television, known for their profound emotional expression and unique narrative style.

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Famous John Logan Quotes

“Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and the soda pop and the Cracker Jack. Everything becomes everything else and it's all nice and pretty and LIKABLE. Everything is fun in the sun! Where's the discernment? Where's the arbitration that separates what I LIKE from what I RESPECT, what I deem WORTHY, what has... listen to me now... SIGNIFICANCE.”

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Book:Red

Source: Red

“And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes from time to time and imagine being warm in the summer and I hear the bees buzzing and for a moment I truly am Alice in Wonderland, do you have the heart to tell me I am not?”

Growing Up Childhood Drama Theater

Book:Peter and Alice

Source: Peter and Alice

“Was it the day you realized your parents aren’t perfect? When you got your first long trousers? Going to school? Saying hello? Saying goodbye? Your heart opens? It breaks? It heals? It breaks again? Which is it?”

Growing Up

Book:Peter and Alice

Source: Peter and Alice

“Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.”

Life Art Death

Book:Red

Source: Red

“Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.”

Years Fall Autumn Sabbath

Book:The poems of James Grahame, John Logan, and William Falconer

Source: The poems of James Grahame, John Logan, and William Falconer

“You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.”

Knows Men World Art Philosophy Past Young Artist Literature Drama Tools Mythology Theology Young Man Civilized Brushes Anthropology Continuum Archeology Pigment Where You Belong

Book:Red

Source: Red

“When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.”

Art Age Parent Loses Vision Gains Lonely Critics Mentor Collecting Gallery No Money Great Times Nothing To Lose

Book:Red

Source: Red

“Music is the medicine of the mind.”

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Author:John Logan

About the Author

Born: September 24, 1961
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 8

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