"All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully."
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"Looking at art is one way of listening to God."
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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
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"What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two."
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"The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all."
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"Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about."
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"I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them."
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"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art."
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"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree."
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"The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight."
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"All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living."
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"Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements."
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"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
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"Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live."
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"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap."
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"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."
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"I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art."
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"The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art."
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"A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk."
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"Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop."
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