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Gustave Flaubert

"On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters."

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"On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters."

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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

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"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."

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"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."

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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."

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"Music gives strength to the spirit."

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"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

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"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

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"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

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"Art is anything people do with distinction."

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"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."

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