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Art Quotes
"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."
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"Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art."
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"Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking."
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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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"Writing isn't something you do because you feel like it. You never feel like it. You write because there's a rat in your brain chewing up the spirals of your DNA and you want to get the words down before they disappear."
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"A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words."
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"I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking."
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"Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me."
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"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."
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"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."
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"Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life."
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"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other."
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"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious."
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"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."
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"That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation."
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"The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean."
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"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
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"In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible."
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"And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art."
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"And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting."
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