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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair…
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the…
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It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for…
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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an…
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A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
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The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
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We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries,…
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Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard…
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient…
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[God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with…
— Eusebius
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Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for…
— Claire Messud
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Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly.
— Philip II of Macedon
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