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Art Quotes by Boris Pasternak
- Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
- He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always…
- Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
- Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the…
- A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by…
- I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make…
- Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can…
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov