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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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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an…
— Andrea Dworkin
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I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew…
— Sol LeWitt
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist.…
— Edward Albee
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I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner…
— Eva Hesse
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And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of…
— Unknown Author
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I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my…
— Josef Albers
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to…
— Ai Weiwei
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is…
— Ai Weiwei
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I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.
— Anthony Burgess
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I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved…
— Max Barry
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This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one…
— Felix Mendelssohn
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