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"978 Art Quotes

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Architectural Else Fine Human
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Architect Beauty Carefully Comfort
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Advise Architect Bury Clients
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Craft Learn Life Long
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Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Art Humanity Love Loved
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Buildings Like People Personalities
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Blood Grow Language Out
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Art Creeds Head Raises
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art Beautiful Beautiful Art Essence
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Alongside Art Conquest Imitation
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Imagination Learned Long Much
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Art is the proper task of life.

Art Life Proper Task
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Art Die Order Truth
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art Contempt Great Great Art
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

Although Another Beginnings Brooklyn
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Always Any Complete Complete Freedom
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Considered Myself Novels Really
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The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

Clothing Colors Express Extension
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Anybody Better Faster Than
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Attention Directed Greater Lesser
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Articles Concerning Flood Grateful
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Along Every Five Hundred
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

Aboriginal Ant Anyone Anyone Else
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Becoming Each Extensions Laws
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

Act Chance Disaster Discovery
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Beings Leads Our Poetry
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

Assurance Been Himself Learned
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Certainly Change Directly Enterprise
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

Burning Other Past Poem
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Actual Besides Class Differs
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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Art Concealing Impatience Patience
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I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

Born Few Good I Think
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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Art Before Combining Come
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

Artist Consumers Real Them
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Come He See Sees
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Fiction Literature Luxury Necessity
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At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art Beautiful Consists Every
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Architecture Castle Clouds No Rules
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Acting Architecture Arrived Filled
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Actual Artist Consenting Dream
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My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Assumption Fundamentally Picture Human
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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

What Interest Always Modernism
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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Act Always Another Create
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Art Effort Eternal Existence
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I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.
About Built Feet Five
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty Happiness Of Promise
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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

Art Beast Brave Flatterer
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Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Art Enemy Hath Ignorance
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