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Art Quotes
"The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book."
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"A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has made any real attempt to recover the loves and the laughter of Elizabethan England. The low dark arches, the low strong pillars upon which Shakespeare's temple rests we can all explore and handle. We can all get into his mere tragedy; we can all explore his dungeon and penetrate into his coal-cellar, but we stretch our hands and crane our necks in vain towards that height where the tall turrets of his levity are tossed towards the sky. Perhaps it is right that this should be so; properly understood, comedy is an even grander thing than tragedy."
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"We may say that History develops, Art stands still."
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"The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions--one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true."
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"The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent."
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"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable."
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"You have to keep doing it, Even if no one is watching. The best artists, are those Who live from their expressions, Not chasing the impressions."
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"A versifier passes through the sound, sounds go through a poet."
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"Artists are the flowers of our world. The best ones are those who can stand out from the crowd by becoming a memorable flower - one that moves us, inspires us, and makes us think hard. A flower with no smell to it is just something to look at. A flower that emits a beautiful fragrance is the one we want in our homes and on our walls. Your mission as an artist, is to become the best-smelling flower in the world, so that when the day finally comes when you are plucked from the ground, the world will cry for the loss of your mind-stimulating fragrance. Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in garden loaded with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple."
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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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"When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men."
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"I writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you."
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"The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated."
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"Music-a country one can inhabit only in music."
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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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"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."
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"Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?"
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"People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art."
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"Colors don't come in shapes.They come in depth."
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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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"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."
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"An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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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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"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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"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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"When you painted on earth " at least in your earlier days " it was because you caught glimpses of heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too."
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"Music heals all forms of misery."
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"Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources."
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"The true art of government consists in not governing too much."
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"In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens."
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"Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life."
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"The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men."
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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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"The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us."
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