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Letter "A" » Art
«The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.»
Author: John Updike
| About:
Adventure,
Art
| Keywords:
adventurer, adventurers, behalf, distinguishes, entertainers, obsessions, refusal, willingness
«The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.»
«The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Truth
| Keywords:
idealize, idealized, idealizing, purely, represent, sculpture, truthfulness
«The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.»
«The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.»
«The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.»
«The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Poets
| Keywords:
adjusted, antisocial, currents, go along, sharpens, sleuth, tends, tends to, trends, well-adjusted
«The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.»
«The picture of a flower in a botanical book is information; its mission ends with our knowledge. But in pure art it is a personal communication. And therefore until it finds its harmony in the depth of our personality it misses the mark. We can treat»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
botanical, misses, picture book
«The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Personality
| Keywords:
continual, extinction, self-sacrifice
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