"The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable"
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"The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice."
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"Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is."
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"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."
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"All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art."
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"Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is — nor what faith or art or health really is."
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"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . ."
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"I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times."
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"Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
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"Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex."
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"We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results."
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"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster."
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"It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose."
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"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination."
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"Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted."
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"Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you."
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"We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art."
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"The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line."
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