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"978 Art Quotes

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
About Artistic Love More
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Cannot Hear Means Paint
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Disregard Duty Faith Opinion
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I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
Corners Drawings Hut Pictures
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Derives Life Own Painter
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Deed Equivalent Good Picture
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I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Artistic Feel Love More
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

Building Ensemble I Love Love
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Activities After-School Any Arts
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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

About Any Basic Basic Elements
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

Artist Comfort Comfort Zone Doing
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I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

Author Believe Man New
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I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in tracksuits with a dog can go online and be considered a sick photo. That's what we've done to London.

Art Boy Considered Dog
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I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.

Acting Acting School Anything Been
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Artist Certainly Fellow Heart
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Artist Distinguishes First Great
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Gods Only Poets Interpreters
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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Beginning Dimensions Finishes Happen
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accident Americana Culture Declaration
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Affiliation Independent Influence Outside
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Force Live Moral Out
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Anguish Beautiful Beautiful Music Cries
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Creative Output You Know
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Exceptions General Can Think
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Art Gossip Leaves Nothing
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

Actually Departments Drama Enough
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

Because Cut Dialogue Did
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.

Been Laps More She
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Art Artist Been Danger
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I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

Else Few Guitar Little
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art Thing Way A
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Business Editor Employed Newspaper
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My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

Art Believe Down Focus
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Emotion Found Poetry Thought
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Gets Lost Poetry Translation
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Reader Surprise Tears Writer
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Around Circles Forward He
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Am Books I Am Learn
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Ear Only Reader True
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I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.
Artistic Been Interested Life
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I've got a great collection of photography.
Collection Got Great Photography
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Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Bands Craft Did Hard
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
Acting Comedy Optimism Out
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Content Important Information More
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Truth Dying Wisdom Art
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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Acting Actor Acts Deals
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Divided Like Teeth Writers
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Art Attention Memory True
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Artist Difficult Easiest Journalist
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