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Art Quotes
"Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry."
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"The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money."
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"The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote."
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"The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies."
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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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"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
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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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"All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism."
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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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"The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art."
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"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."
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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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"Play me something that makes me feel;This soul inside me is made of steel.Brain is breathing, but heart's not beatingAnd, babe, I need you to make things real.Walk inside me without silence,Kill the past and change the tense.Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring;Take me places that make more sense."
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"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."
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"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"
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"But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary."
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"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."
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"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution."
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"Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man."
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"I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us."
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"Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music."
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"We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come second-compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order will not give one the same pleasure as a simple black-and-white sketch of a portrait."
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"Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people."
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"A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold, the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver."
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"If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well."
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"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
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"Super 8 film is the language of silence."
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"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion."
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"The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us."
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