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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

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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

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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

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The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The artist of today must work with his face turned toward the dawn, steadfastly believing that his dreams will come true before the setting of the sun. ↗

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

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Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it too ↗

— Lucien Bourjeily

#actor #actress #immersive #interactive-theater #multisensory

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. ↗

— Victor J. Banis

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... I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that crosses the river of blood into Faerie, that flies so high it is scorched by the sun, and then returns to tell the tale to us. It is art that needed to be written, or painted, or sung, or woven, or otherwise shaped. It is art gifted by the Mystery to the maker...and then, in turn, gifted to us. ↗

— Terri Windling

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