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William Morris

"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."

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"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."

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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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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"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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"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
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"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
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"Give me love and work - these two only."
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"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."
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"The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"
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"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
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"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
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"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
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"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
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"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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