"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity."
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"Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art."
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"Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols."
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"I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don't write the words; I don't make the decisions. That's the director. Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities. Our true identities should have no bounds and no limits."
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"Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great."
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"But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts."
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"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."
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"The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible."
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"Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art."
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"The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within."
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"Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination."
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"In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination."
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"You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry."
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"Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth."
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"I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are."
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"I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection."
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"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time."
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"The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being."
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"As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years."
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"When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends."
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