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"978 Art Quotes

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

Acting Because Body Dance
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Accord Arm Came Day
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
Begin Beginning Continue End
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

Along Board Canoe Currents
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Absolutely Actor Believe Bleed
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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Earth Materials Natural Productions
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Farmers
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art Enables Find Lose
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Simply Become Competence Daily
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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Defeat Non-Violence Thing Such
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

After Going Hot Hours
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Typewriter Without Woman You
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Day Others Self Wasted
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The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.

Comics Detailed Graphic Influenced
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I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.
Could Create Me Needed
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Artist Does Excellence Goes
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The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

Destroys Detail Essential Important
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I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

Buildings Considered Constructed Craftsman
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Art Beauty Stars Fairer
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Artist Carries Composition Head
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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Ancient Better Imitate Modern
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Any Being Conscious Copies
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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Attributes Colour Concerned Darkness
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The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Always Colour Front Images
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Art Engineering Foot Human
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art Does Hand Spirit
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Abandoned Art Finished Never
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art Artist Experienced Feeling
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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Art Eat Food Good
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

Activity Art Map Mechanical
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It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.

Complete Designer Freedom Genius
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Beginning Beings Creative Great
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Acting Always Being Fulfilled
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I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Art Artist Creative Creative Person
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You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Artists Easy Go How
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Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.
Agenda Art Christian Christians
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That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.'

Able Exists Faith Fatherhood
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Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm.

Artist Artistic Being Considered
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Art Blood Bones Creative
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

Any Day Going Like
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

Feel Good Sneeze Spiteful
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Bites Curse Deep Literature
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Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

About Available Camera Carried
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Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

Alive Cosmos Doing Feedback
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Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.

Again Almost Been Conditions
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I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

Attracted Becomes Come Exploration
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I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Able Became Being End
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