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That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#writing #art

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#art-theory #creativity #design #emotion #matisse

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#art #creativity #literature #music #painting

It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like smoke, whiplash curves. ... I touched the pages her hands touched, I pressed them to my lips, the soft thick old paper, yellow now, fragile as skin. I stuck my nose between the bindings and smelled all the readings she had given, the smell of unfiltered cigarettes and the espresso machine, beaches and incense and whispered words in the night. I could hear her voice rising from the pages. The cover curled outward like sails. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#silver #smell #wanting #art

Cheaters are cowards that are tempted to chase the fantasy of what could be… instead of courageously addressing their own self-destructive behavior and cultivating what is. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#cheater #cheating #life #love #relationships

...writing is not a performance but a generosity. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

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Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality. ↗

— John Gardner

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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible. ↗

— Robert Henri

#artist #daring #disturb #enlighten #interesting

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#authorship #truth #writing #art

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#writing-craft #art