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Art Quotes
"A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art."
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"If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else."
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"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."
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"You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any way. Do you know that every great thing in the story of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?"
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"It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again."
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"Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart."
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"Write the story. Don't write sentences."
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"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination."
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"The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school. Most of the similarities end there. Max and the other kids in Maximum Ride are not the same Max and kids featured in those two books. nor do Frannie and Kit play any part in Maximum Ride. I hope you enjoy the ride anyways."
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"It is thus that man, with fervent imagination, can endue the rough stone with loveliness, forge the mis-shapen metal into a likeness of all that wins our hearts by exceeding beauty, and breathe into a dissonant trump soul-melting harmonies. The mind of man-that mystery, which may lend arms against itself, teaching vain lessons of material philosophy, but which, in the very act, shows its power to play with all created things, adding the sweetness of its own essence to the sweetest, taking its ugliness from the deformed."
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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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"The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare speeches, the graveside oration, studded in fragments in the memory, was a succession of brilliant phrases, book titles, dying cadences that breathed life, pure alertness, along the spine."
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"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization."
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"When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words."
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"The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, and in elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present, and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life. Therein lies the social significance of art: it is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is most lacking."
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"But as men grow more industrialised and regimented, the kind of delight that is common in children becomes impossible to adults because they are always thinking of the next thing and cannot let themselves be absorbed in the moment. This habit of thinking of the 'next thing' is more fatal to any kind of aesthetic excellence than any other habit of mind that can be imagined, and if art, in any important sense, is to survive it will not be by the foundation of solemn academies, but by recapturing the capacity for wholehearted joys and sorrows which prudence and foresight have all but destroyed."
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"As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum."
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"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."
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"When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything."
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"Me, following her home.Her, thinking she's alone.For hours, I watched her paint, sat in the darkness, and marveled."
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"Success can be compared to a camera. Always focus closely on your objective. Ignore distractions. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn out, take more shots for success. Visualize clearly what you want. Make success happen by being persistent."
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"This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently."
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"I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."
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"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."
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"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
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"I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head."
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"Get me a cappuccino, with toasties, flavored in Jalapeno.'Anything special for the cappuccino?He asked, the waiter chivalrous.'Follow the ideal doing, grind the beans just before brewing.Use spring water, for softened water, makes a horror.A parley perfect, between the coffee, and the milk, with some, brown sugar thick. (Poem: An apology of a coffee lunatic, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer."
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"I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits."
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"A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two."
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"Standing in the spotlight, surrounded by all my selves, each of them naked and vulnerable before your lens, I want to be split open and reminded of shame. I know that sounds selfish, but I'm allowed to be selfish 'cause we're talking about photography. Do you honestly believe I don't see it for what it actually is: Exploitative? Exploitation is the nature of the beast, whatever the hell that means."
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"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism."
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"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
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"But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a."
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