"A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done."
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"A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression."
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"Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers."
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"There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny."
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"A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh."
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"My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front."
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"Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community."
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"And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else"
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"There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment."
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"Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness."
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"While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it."
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"And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection."
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"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."
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"A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram."
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"Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper."
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"One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output."
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"The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided."
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"I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative."
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"Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something."
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"Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way."
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