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Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I…
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Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is…
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Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and…
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.…
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Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the…
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Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
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Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what…
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Art is the highest form of hope.
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My paintings are wiser than I am.
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To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable…
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I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
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Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture…
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a…
— Lord Byron
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I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
— Bernard Moitessier
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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer…
— George Saintsbury
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…
— Howard Zinn
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I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my…
— Jean Craighead George
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will…
— Aaron Carter
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my…
— Andrew Solomon
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When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.
— Anne Frank
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If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when…
— Rich Little
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Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.…
— Denis Johnson
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
— Samuel Johnson
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A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little…
— Henri Nouwen
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