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Art Quotes
"Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?"
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"To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art."
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"I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together."
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"I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play."
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"When whisperedwhat an exquisitesong, it makes-your name."
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"We may say that History develops, Art stands still."
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"All art is but dirtying the paper delicately."
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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
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"What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work. "We see his own appetite for life, his mix of urgency with compassion . . . the artistic thrust of his photography always had more to do with its emotional pitch, which remained genuine and deeply felt." Or, in Capa's own words, a great picture "is a cut out of the whole event which will show more of the real truth of the affair to some one who was not there than the whole scene."
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"It's a tricky art, working with them in their purest form, she mused. "Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex. It sounded like my relationship with Adrian."
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"Yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood..."
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"A versifier passes through the sound, sounds go through a poet."
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"We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe."
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"A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens."
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"The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men."
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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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"Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist."
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"The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt."
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"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."
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"When she spoke, Tom held his breath, so eagerly he listened; when she sang, he sat like one entranced. She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new and deified existence."
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"The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it."
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"When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows. The job of the singer, actor or artists ,in general, is to make us comfortable with our feelings or emotions-be it pain, hurt, anger, hatred, sadness, pleasure, love, cheerfulness or joy."
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"Color speaks all languages."
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"Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul."
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"The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'"
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned."
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"As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."
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"I grasp words for the sake of clutching My mind considers them heart touchingRight then I write for my reader's pleasureNot knowing what distance a soul can measure."
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"What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula."
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"As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split."
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"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly."
Art,
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"Life is music to which you choreograph your own dance."
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"Music inspires! Music influences! Music rebukes! Music awakens the slumbering! Music describes, and tells stories of intrigue! Music can redirect the true direction of lives. The power of music must never be underestimated. If you don't know what music can do to you, don't listen to music."
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"The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth."
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"Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!"
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"Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride."
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