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Art Quotes

"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea."

"Acting is happy agony."

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs"

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you"

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"I think in every artist's life, there are times when you have to make a choice between the easy path and the right path."

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on"

"Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering"

"The mark of a true artist is simplicity."

"There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues."

"All art is autobiographical; all meaning is linguistic; all narratives are ideoplastic."

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty"

"Poetry is the watchful eye of the human race"

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