A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of storytelling, wearing us out with repetition, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines. It insists on showing us Bardak Electronics, the saftey handle in the car, a stray dog, a Christmas card and a fly that lands first on the rim and then in the centre of the ashtray.
Which explains how the curious phenomenon whereby valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress; they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments, and thus, without either lying or embellishing, they lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting wooliness of the present.
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Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
Dorothea TanningI have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Georgia O'KeeffeTags: inspirational art criticism
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: art writing ambiguity complexity
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
H.L. MenckenI thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.
Janet FitchTags: art love adoration pottery
This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....
Laurie Halse AndersonTags: art yourself tree birds turkey
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
Maxim GorkyTags: art
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Miguel RuizTags: art
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