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Art Quotes
"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
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"There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal."
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"The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined."
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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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"Art is a house that tries to be haunted."
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"She's into authentic hearts and mind shattering conversations. Good music and quirky art. Weirdness and eccentric people. Love, kindness and genuine souls. She's into all this and so much more."
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"Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself."
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"Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new."
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"High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water."
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"We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it."
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"Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall."
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"The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty."
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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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"The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant."
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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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"What has seven editions (the book had already gone into no less) got to do with the value of it? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself - a voice answering a voice."
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"Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art."
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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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"Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction."
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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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"The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality."
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"Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come."
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"I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination."
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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
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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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"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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"Music communicates with the soul."
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"A versifier's poem is born by the sound, a poet's sound is born by the poem."
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"I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery."
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"There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts."
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