All Quotes By Tag: Art
“There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have words.”
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“How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.”
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“The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.”
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“I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.”
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“Do you write novels?” I said.”Novels, Lord no,” she said. “I can’t even stay married.”
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“Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.”
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“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”
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“Art is long, and Time is fleeting.”
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“A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the ‘standpoint of art’ can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology… gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a ‘secular saviour’ for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.”
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“Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.”
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“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”
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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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“Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom…and that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, when they need it, and that’s always.”
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