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Art Quotes
"And Esme remembered in a rush--the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her like the crescendo at the end of a symphony and made her heartbeat quicken."
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"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
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"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
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"Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant."
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"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
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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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"The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction."
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"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have."
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"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."
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"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."
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"Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life."
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"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."
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"I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet."
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"I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade."
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"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be."
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