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Art Quotes
"The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly."
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"As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"The beautiful is always bizarre."
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"A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination."
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"Music Doesn't Need Interpreters and Translators."
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"Fresh writing and an original twist on an old idea. As much as this term is hated in the industry, it doesn't make it any less true. High concept. Simply put, you take a universal concept, something that has been done a million times (because everything has been done a million times), and add a fresh twist to it. Something no one saw coming. But mostly fresh writing! Keep it clean, simple, and compelling."
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"You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it's better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones."
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"It was amazing how many colors there were, all running into the gutter in a stream: a dozen shades of blue, twenty different reds, and all that black soot, like a nightmare given form, the insides of a heart, destroyed so easily, done away with before anyone could stop the damage, or salvage what was lost, or even try to save him."
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"Artists are those who can evade the verbose."
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"By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound."
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"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."
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"Expression that comes from the deepest, darkest place that most of us would rather hide from the rest of the world is the substance that will most likely also deeply affect others."
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"When you dance, your whole body dances, your skin and bones, your soul, The tips of your fingers and the roots of your hair. When you stop dancing you stop living."
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"My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light."
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"You roll me out flat."
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"Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space."
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"I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist."
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"Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular."
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"I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script."
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"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation."
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"Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition."
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"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
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"Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within."
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"Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist."
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"The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
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"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
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"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."
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"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."
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"Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic."
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