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"978 Art Quotes

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Dramatic Element Great Great Part
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

Any Being Bound Change
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

Achieve Always Atmosphere Belongs
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

Accustomed Air Any Awe
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

Action Atmosphere Certain Ever
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

Cosmic Escape Fixed Hence
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

Be Original Being Believe Common
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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
Art Art Form Deserve Form
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Art Criticism Just Life
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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Despair Just Like Perfect
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

Answers Conclusions Every I Think
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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Artistic Bored Creative Disappointed
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Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Always Boring Dark Most
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Being Better Difficulties Explicit
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

City Enough Frame Go
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Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Above Admire Embrace Key
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Art Least Lies Untrue
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Art Believe Discovering Writing
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Anything Artists Attain Cannot
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I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

About Just Me Parallel
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I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Because Call Express Fiction
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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Because Else Father Japanese
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Any Come Just Plan
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Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Compete Culture Games High
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Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Cats I Write Just Like
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My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

Anything Heroes How Know
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Am Between Could Distinguish
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Painting Poetry Silent Speaks
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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

All Powerful Artist Creation Everywhere
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

Absolute Almost Art Axiom
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Art Faith Freedom Neither
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Always Arts Believe Everything
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I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

Art Breath Come Equilibrium
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
Arena Change Desert Never
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

Always Architectural Art Arts
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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

About Anybody Art Art Form
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

Art Art Form Because Been
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Art Exist Naked Beauty
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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
Art Kills Creativity Rule
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To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

Fame Alter Ego Music
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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Artistic Arts Began Candle
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Not every artist is a role model.
Artist Every Model Role
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Best Big Characters Counts
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

Anything Interviewer Listener Natural
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

Any Class College Fiction
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Calling Easy Enough Girl
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Creative Essence Hence Judge
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

Arts IThink Look Make-Believe
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At a certain point, I had so much artwork that I decided to respect the art and present them in a nice way, not just on a dusty shelf.

Art Artwork Certain Certain Point
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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