"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."

Art, Artist, Force, Will

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"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Art, Sun

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

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Art, Science, Creation

"I see my life in terms of music."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Art, Life, Music, Perception, Emotion

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"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

Art, Poetry, Soul, Mind

"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

Art, Truth, Critics, Authors

"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."

Alice Walker, American Author

Art, Memory, Observation, Truth, Reflection

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Art, History

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

Steven Redhead, British Author

Art, Life, Time, Creation

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

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain."

Observation, Empathy, Compassion, Photography

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

Art, Revenge

"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."

Learning, Literature, Empathy, Knowledge, Observation

"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."

Health, Suffering

"How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!"

Philosophy, Self-Love, Devotion, Reflection, Emotion

"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."

Sociology, Society, Appearance, Identity, Perception

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

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

"I see my life in terms of music."

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

"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."

"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."

"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."

"History develops, art stands still."

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

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

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"In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain."

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."

"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."

"How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!"

"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."

"What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death."

"To photograph is to confer importance."

"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought."

"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."