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Art Quotes
"Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall."
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"When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons."
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"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
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"A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique."
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"Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style."
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"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."
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"If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery."
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"And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art."
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"I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce."
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"An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life."
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"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
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"One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes."
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"In the novelist's profession, as far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as winning or losing. Maybe numbers of copies sold, awards won, and critics' praise serve as outward standards for accomplishment in literature, but none of them really matter. What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. Failure to reach that bar is not something you can easily explain away. When it comes to other people, you can always come up with a reasonable explanation, but you can't fool yourself. In this sense, writing novels and running full marathons are very much alike."
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"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."
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"A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance."
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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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"When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment."
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"I want to see thirstIn the syllables,Tough fireIn the sound;Feel through the darkFor the scream."
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"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."
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"Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it."
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"Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art."
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"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
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"Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories."
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"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."
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"We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek."
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"To grow a melody?" "You can't grow a melody on purpose, she said, and slyly added, "you have to plant an accidental."
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"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."
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"Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."
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"Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!"
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"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."
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"I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?"
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"What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula."
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"Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect."
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