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Art Quotes
"In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal."
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"I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot."
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"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."
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"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."
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"Music is often the spark that lights the fire of the soul."
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"I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others."
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"I am looking at him, I am witnessing a unique physiological phenomenon: John Shade perceiving and transforming the world, taking it in and taking it apart, re-combining its elements in the very process of storing them up so as to produce at some unspecified date an organic miracle, a fusion of image and music, a line of verse."
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"I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar."
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"Comedians can turn laughter into tears and back again."
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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
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"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
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"The art of art is simplicity."
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."
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"Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art."
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"When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination."
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"Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone."
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"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows."
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"While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep."
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"My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't understand the words to their songs, she found the music almost unbearably sad. After the concert, Kate approached the lead Mongolian singer and asked, "What are your songs about?" He replied, "Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse."
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"Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only he who has eatenpoppies with the deadwill not lose ever againthe gentlest chord.Though the image upon the pooloften grows dim:Know and be still.Inside the Double Worldall voices becomeeternally mild."
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"The intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write."
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"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."
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"Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage."
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"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience."
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"No tears and the writer no tears and the reader."
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"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."
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