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Amy Lowell

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."

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"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."

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Akiroq Brost

"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

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"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

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"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

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"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."

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"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"She considered him further and decided he could definitely pass for a pirate. No, she thought, correcting herself. More like a sea captain, a younger version of the captain from that old movie where the pretty woman rents an old sea captain's house only to find the place haunted by the sea captain himself.She let out a heavy breath. Man, she loved that movie."

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"I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head."

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"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."
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"Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils."
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"Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation."
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"All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words."
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"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."
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"Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness."
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"Youth condemns; maturity condones."
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"A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men."
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"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
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"Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls."
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