"The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art."
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"As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the big jazz stars, both now and in the past...how shall I say it? These guys are as great as Bach, Beethoven; all of them. People don't know it yet. If jazz survives and is put on a pedestal as an art form, the same as classical music has been through the years, a hundred years from now the kids will know who they were, with that kind of respect."
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"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
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"I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually."
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"In life beauty perishes, but not in art."
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"No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature."
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"The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men. His will be a deeper and finer experience. We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. It is with science as with ethics,--we cannot know truth by contrivance and method; the Baconian is as false as any other, and with all the helps of machinery and the arts, the most scientific will still be the healthiest and friendliest man, and possess a more perfect Indian wisdom."
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"Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering."
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"The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it."
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"Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity."
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"The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts."
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"The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being."
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"From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul."
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"Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart."
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"In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end."
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"Art is the great stimulus to life."
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"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."
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"The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire."
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"I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always."
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