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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."
"Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become."
"A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture."
"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
"When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it."
Explore more quotes by Diane Lane
"I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel."
"When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy."
"Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it."
"I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship."
"When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!"
"I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world."
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