"The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical."

Art, Architecture, Want

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"The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"I see my life in terms of music."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'"

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"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."

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"If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light."

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"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."

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"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."

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"The role of art in society differs for every artist."

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"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."

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"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."

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"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."

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"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."

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"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist."

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