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Yann Martel has 214 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have…
— Alexander Payne
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within…
— Karen Kain
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Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is…
— Richard P. Feynman
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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be…
— Oscar Wilde
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Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.
— Hetti Perkins
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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
— Oscar Wilde
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations…
— Steve Vai
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end…
— Yann Martel
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us…
— Banksy
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Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and…
— Steve Vai
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