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Art Quotes
"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."
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"Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?"
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"The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head."
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"If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art."
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"I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm."
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"We must understand the need for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No matter how many hours you spend to render something flawless, somebody will always be able to find fault with it."
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"As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?"
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"Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out."
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"My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains."
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"I let my love for all flow through art, and I express how I feel."
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"I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and our passing through Briceland again on our way back to New York, but such suffusions of swimming colors are not to be disdained by the artist in recollection."
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"A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art."
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"A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience."
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"The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
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"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
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"This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."
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"Creativity flows when the mind is light. Be light and ignite your imagination."
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"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance."
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"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
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"Work your craft, until it becomes an art from."
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"The true art of government consists in not governing too much."
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"I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it."
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"Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life."
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"I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great."
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"If you don't understand it, it's art."
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"Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror."
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"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."
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"I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement."
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"The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men."
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"Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile."
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"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
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"How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?"
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"I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth..."
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