"The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices."
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"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."
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"Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes."
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"It is a great art to saunter !"
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"A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself."
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"To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own."
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"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."
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"All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy)."
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"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
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"It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes."
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"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
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"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
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"Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp."
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"What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience."
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"A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
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"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."
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"Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace."
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"Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed."
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"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."
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