"Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men."
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"After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art."
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"My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education."
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"Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages."
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"I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between."
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"It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot."
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"What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?"
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"In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable."
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"There is but one art, to omit."
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"Sightseeing is the art of disappointment."
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"Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books."
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"Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."
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"Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
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"My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter."
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"A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession."
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"If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death."
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"Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering."
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"The Art of War is self-explanatory"
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"I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children."
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"All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation."
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