"If art has a purpose, it is to……" — Catherine Drinker Bowen
"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions."
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
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14 Quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in…
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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice.…
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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes,…
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
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Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
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It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by…
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In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians…
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Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
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All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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