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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."
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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
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"Music communicates with the soul."
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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
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"While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place."
God
"My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money."
Money
"I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer."
Art
"I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me."
God
"I know the world is hungry for good ministry."
World
"I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God."
God
"It's not just being called to the ministry that counts."
Being
"As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be."
Christ
"There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years."
People
"We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else."
People
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