“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
— George Santayana
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The creative act lasts but a brief
“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
— Walter Winchell
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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”
— Lionel Trilling
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The musician is perhaps the most modest
“The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.”
— Erik Satie
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By the work one knows the workman.
“By the work one knows the workman.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Art is the most beautiful deception of
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.”
— Claude Debussy
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What strikes me is the fact that
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”
— Michel Foucault
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of
“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
— James Joyce
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Even in literature and art, no man
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
— C. S. Lewis
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The great art of films does not
“The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.”
— Louise Brooks
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