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Art Quotes
"She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'."
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"A picture may describe a 1000 words but it will often need 1000 words to describe a picture."
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"We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry."
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"I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness."
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"Artist is not human, but humanity."
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"The cruise was the conduit for what would become my third book. While I was traveling and writing for ctnow.com, women across the United States and from the Caribbean emailed not to ask about my geographic journey but my existential one. "How do you find the courage to travel on your own? they wondered. "How do you keep from getting lonely? Don't you feel self-conscious eating out alone? After the first 30 emails like these I thought, There's a book here. It would be eight years before I published Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road. But the inspiration for publication came during the cruise."
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"Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people."
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"I'm working on another Lyra book right now " it's called The Book of Dust.'It's going very well and it will be finished when I write the words 'The End'."
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"She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx."
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"I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect."
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"If you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority..."
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"Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have become too stupid to appreciate it. That seems a little easy to me."
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"For essential beauty is infinite, and, as the soul of Nature needs an endless succession of varied forms to embody her loveliness, countless faces of beauty springing forth, not any two the same, at every one of her heart-throbs, so the individual form needs an infinite change of its environments, to enable it to uncover all the phases of its loveliness."
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"The art wouldn't complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination."
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"The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow."
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"The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name."
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"Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to explain ourselves to the world or the world to ourselves."
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"Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white."
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"Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some."
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"When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language."
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"Only sick music makes money today."
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"The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort."
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"Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows."
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"A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone."
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"Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it."
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"Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious expression came into her face. She was thinking of no one and of nothing at that moment, and from her smiling mouth poured forth notes, those notes that anyone can produce at the same intervals, and hold for the same length of time, yet a thousand times leave us cold, and the thousand and first time they set us thrilling and weeping."
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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
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"On the levels of politics and theology, beauty is perfectly compatible with nonsense and tyranny. Which is very fortunate; for if beauty were incompatible with nonsense and tyranny, there would be precious little art in the world. The masterpieces of painting, sculpture and architecture were produced as religious or political propaganda, for the greater glory of a god, a government or a priesthood. But most kings and priests have been despotic and all religions have been riddled with superstition. Genius has been the servant of tyranny and art has advertised the merits of the local cult. Time, as it passes, separates the good art from the bad metaphysics. Can we learn to make this separation, not after the event, but while it is actually taking place? That is the question."
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"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
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"The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious."
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"From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way."
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"Experience is an author's most valuable asset, experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes."
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"I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe..."
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