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Artistic Quotes (page 39)

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth. Anais Nin
As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image. And as the mole on my right breast is where it was when I was born, though all my body has been woven of new stuff time after time, so through the ghost of the unquiet father the image of the unliving son looks forth. In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal, that which I was is that... James Joyce
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege. Thomas Mann
that each ejaculation contains several billion sperm cells –or roughly the same number as there are people in the world– which means that, in himself, each man holds the potential of an entire world. And what would happen, could it happen, is the full range of possibilities: a spawn of idiots and geniuses, of the beautiful and the deformed, of saints, catatonics, thieves, stock brokers, and high-wire artists. Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all... Paul Auster
Television is cretinizing me – I can feel it. Soon I’ll be like the TV artists. You know the people I mean. Girls who subliminally model themselves on kid-show presenters, full of faulty melody and joy, Melody and Joy. Men whose manners show newscaster interference, soap stains, film smears. Or the cretinized, those who talk on buses and streets as if TV were real, who call up networks with strange questions, stranger demands...If you lose your rug, you can get a false one. If you lose your... Martin Amis
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. Truman Capote
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal. Walker Percy
J. D. Salinger quote: "Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even..."
Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) J. D. Salinger
Marcel Proust quote: "To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail......"
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion Marcel Proust
We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it. Stephen Fry
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. Friedrich Nietzsche
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in such a manner, they are belittling both the artist’s work and their own ability to experience it. Each painting I do says everything I want to say on its subject and in terms of that painting, and not all the trivia in the world concerning my private life will give the viewer more insight into it than what hangs there before their eyes. Frankly, as far as I’m... Charles de Lint
Isak Dinesen quote: "Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart..."
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. Isak Dinesen
Margaret Atwood quote: "He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need..."
He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. Margaret Atwood

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