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Art Quotes

"This is a perfect example of why it is so difficult to be a singer and not a poet."

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

"What is better than to sit at ease and listen to the best that the poets sing?"

"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."

"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the art goes out of it"

"The life so short, the craft so long to learn"

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

"I see football as an art and all players are artists"

"You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."

"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."

"You can't buy vision and you can't buy aesthetics"

"In art, there are no beginnings"

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink"

"The poet is an artist for whom singing is not simply enough only accompanied by tears is his song complete"

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