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Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have…

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Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is…
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read…
Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one…
It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The…
The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.
Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and…
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present…
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because…
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction…

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Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,… — Stephen King
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Oh, I'm going to miss everything. It's been the most amazing and significant job of my life obviously and I'll always have… — Alyson Hannigan
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. — Raymond Chandler
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to… — Walter Mosley
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs. — Ernest Hemingway
Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a… — William Strunk, Jr.
Wayne Curtis is one of our very best writers! — David Adams Richards
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I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading… — Rupert Sanders

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