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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 Edna Ferber
"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."
"A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects."
"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."
"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way."
"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."
"If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics."
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