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Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#mindfulness #psychology #art

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth. ↗

— Barbara Streisand

#truth #art

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice. ↗

— Liam O'Flaherty

#artists #creativity #art

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#life #talk #talking #art

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us naught but grief an' pain For promised joy! Still thou art blest, compared wi' me! The present only toucheth thee: ↗

— Robert Burns

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We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation—and born into the stories told of each of these. ↗

— Lewis Hyde

#stories #art

O belo é feito de um elemento eterno, invariável, cuja quantidade é muito difícil de ser determinada, e de um elemento relativo, circunstancial, que será - como preferirem: um a cada vez ou todos ao mesmo tempo - a época, a moda, a moral, a paixão ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beleza #art

Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience. ↗

— Will Eisner

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Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#boyfriend #high-school #photography #prom #art