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Art Quotes
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."
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"Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it."
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"Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?"
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"Coordinating thereEvents and objects with remote eventsAnd vanished objects. Making ornamentsOf accidents and possibilities."
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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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"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."
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"Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong, we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde."
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"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."
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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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"I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets."
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"Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline."
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"He was a writer and words were his weapons."
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"Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction - you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart."
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"Every story needs to be worth telling."
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"I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it."
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"For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening."
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"To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy."
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"She considered him further and decided he could definitely pass for a pirate. No, she thought, correcting herself. More like a sea captain, a younger version of the captain from that old movie where the pretty woman rents an old sea captain's house only to find the place haunted by the sea captain himself.She let out a heavy breath. Man, she loved that movie."
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"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
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"Girls, there are poets who learn from youto say, what you, in your aloneness, are;and they learn through you to live distantness,as the evenings through the great starsbecome accustomed to eternity."
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"Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears..."
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"To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand-that is art."
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"Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes."
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"The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information."
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"Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh."
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"He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment."
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"Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man."
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"All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?"
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"Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted."
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"Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others."
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"Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."
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"There isn't much art to writing, you just feel; feel everything deeply and somehow transform your lessons into a magical piece of work that will help someone else's heartache."
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"Style is the woman herself."
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"A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is."
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"She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose."
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"The most difficult thing about writing, is writing the first line."
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