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Art Quotes
"I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music."
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"Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?"
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"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
Art,
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"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured."
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"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
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"I do not read a book, I hold a conversation with the author."
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"At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London."
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"The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech."
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"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art."
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"I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us."
Art,
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"I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed."
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"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
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"Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life."
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"With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami."
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"So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement."
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"This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect."
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"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art."
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"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art."
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"We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that."
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"When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement."
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"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom."
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"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is."
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"People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."
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"One of the few things I know about writing is this:spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is a signal to spend it now. Something more will arise later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water."
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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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"As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too."
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"Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait."
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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
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