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Art Quotes
"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence."
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"This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect."
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"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."
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"As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too."
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"I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe."
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"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."
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"I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them."
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"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."
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"Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you."
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"One does not only wish to be understood when one writes, one wishes just as surely not to be understood."
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"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."
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"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
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"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."
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"It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me."
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"Wisely mingled poetry and prose."
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"I had no more alphabetthan the journeying of the swallows,the pure and tiny waterof the small, fiery birdthat dances rising from the pollen."
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"ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough-see point one."
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"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
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"I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ..."
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"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."
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"Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would."
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"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."
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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
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"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
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"The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy."
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"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all."
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"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
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"In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution."
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