Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
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Land really is the best art.
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
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When I haven't any blue I use red.
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Posted by: Ilaria Daolio
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
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Posted by: libera poetante
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No only do I hate the cells of a prison, but even those of art, where few stay or just alone, I am for the clarity without shadows of the sun to the zenith point, that hides nothing of good and evil. If poetry bears this great light, then it is true poetry.
Written on sunday september 12, 2010
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Even you can mold and animate at choice the game of your life, it depends on you. As madness, in an elevated way is the beginning of every knowledge , the way schizophrenia is the beginning of all arts, of every dream.
Written on monday september 6, 2010
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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