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Art Quotes
"Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys."
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"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."
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"I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there."
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"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."
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"Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship."
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"I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life."
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"When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us."
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"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
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"I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow."
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"My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional."
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"And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say."
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"Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's"."
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"Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person."
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"Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star."
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"Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking."
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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
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"I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe."
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"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."
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"Super 8 film is the language of silence."
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"Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would."
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"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
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"Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
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"We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art."
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"We are never like angels till our passion dies."
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"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
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"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."
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"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
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"An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination."
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