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When art as an expression starts to appear, without prompting, all over the suburbs and villages of this country, what we are saying is: we are confident enough to create our own living, our own entertainment, our own aesthetic. Such an aesthetic will not be donated to us from the corridors of a university; or from the Ministry of Culture, or by the French Cultural Centre. It will come from the individual creations of a thousand creative people ↗

— Binyavanga Wainaina

#kenya #kwani #art

Sometimes there are entire chapters written beneath someone's whisper. ↗

— Jake Wilson

#metafiction #writing #art

There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great art has nationality, an imprimatur achieved with the keenest remembrance of time and place. ↗

— F. Sionil José

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Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ↗

— Paul Klee Foundation

#artists #artists-way #paul-klee #art

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #come #curiosity #end #i

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#art-of-living #calligraphy #creative #ki #meditation

WE ARE the PULSE of the TIMES! ↗

— Carrie White

#biography #carrie-white #carrie-white-hairdresser #inspirational #literature

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in. ↗

— Beverly Lowry

#writing #art

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#writing #art

Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and the presumption of guessing at the inner thoughts of historical figures. Unfortunately, the result has largely been not to demythologize the past, but merely to dehumanize and depersonalize it. As Roger Mudd has pointed out, 'Too many of today's historians [and biographers] ... seem to have forgotten that the writing of history is a literary art. ↗

— Markham Shaw Pyle

#history #writing #art