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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Art, Poetry, Perceptions, Emotion

"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."

Bill Griffith, American Cartoonist

Art, Artist, Smoking

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Art, Poetry, Song, Life

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

Thomas Harrison, American Historian

Art, Poetry, Concern, Language

"Music gives strength to the spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Strength, Spirit, Energy

"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."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Art, Immortality, Will

"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish Sculptor

Art, Insanity

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

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Art,

"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind."

Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist

Art, Science, Man, Mind

"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."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Art, Creativity, Suffering, Writing, Passion

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"I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them."

Woman, Women, People, Open, Will

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."

Life, Importance

"A great artist is never poor."

Art, Artist, Poor

"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road."

God, Road, World

"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."

Life, Age, Business, Love

"Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does."

Silence,

"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."

Nature, Abundance, Ants, Evil

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea."

Cure, Sea, Tears

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."

Work, Time, Day, Will