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Ben Marcus Author
Art

"RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming."

Art Pain Wise
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Ben Marcus Author
Art

"To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way."

Writing Art Technology
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Dar Williams Singer-songwriter
Art

"I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced me not just to being a full-time traveler, which I was, but he was also really very interested in history and art and continued to open my eyes up to regional history; less splashy histories. He was interested in historical societies and stuff like that. He introduced me to a way of looking at the way communities form that is the foundation for the book that I've just finished writing that has to do with what I see as effective community-building wherever I've been traveling."

Art Book Eye
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Benjamin Philosopher
Art

"The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue."

Men Art Practice
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Art

"I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult."

Writing Mean Art
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Art

"The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!"

Art Culture Feminist
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Art

"What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction."

Art Adequate Dysfunction
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Art

"Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working."

Art Creative Work
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Art

"One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill."

Years Art Wall
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Art

"I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions."

Art Struggle Social
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Agnes Martin Artist
Art

"What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response."

Thinking Art Beauty
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David Bowie Musician, Actor
Art

"It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market."

Art Real Grace
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David Bowie Musician, Actor
Art

"I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist."

Thinking Art Artist
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David Bowie Musician, Actor
Art

"If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile."

Art Media Television
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