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“..in contemporary modern music, the working out is so intellectual that the extempore act does not give the modernist time to concoct anything he himself would consider significant”

— Robert Gottlieb, Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now, Share via Whatsapp

“It s all so arty there s no art left in it.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Share via Whatsapp

“जगाच्या बाजारात कलागुणांना विकून पैसे मिळत असेल तर कदाचित कुठेच नाही बसत मी ह्या जगात. पण फक्त जगण्यासाठी कलागुणांना विसरून वाट्याला आलेली फरफड कधीच मान्य नाही.”

— Sonal Takalkar, Share via Whatsapp

“Love and Art go together like baritone and alto, paint and canvas, like sunrise and a burning atmosphere.”

— Julie Berry, Lovely War, Share via Whatsapp

“Art is distortion but a form of distortion that has the possibility of offering clarification, like a corrective lens. [Adelaide Scott]”

— Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle, Share via Whatsapp

“Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.”

— Master Nursi, Share via Whatsapp

“Many more looked around at happy and unhappy things alike, left the room, and agreed to the pen. It’s a weird occasion, writing is. It appears as peaceful, silent years of nothing, but implies the valor of someone fighting a lifelong monster. To decide to wield the pen is a win with no victory. But some lines of theirs were more important than satisfaction. What is a bookshelf but a place for us to see all the nights our dearest of friends did not see their own?”

— Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song, Share via Whatsapp

“If you don t select any passion voluntarily, boredom will select you involuntarily.”

— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words, Share via Whatsapp

“There is a set relationship between performing arts and plastic acts which might not be as visible unless we dive deep.”

— Ujjwal Arora, Artistic Paradigm: Changing Limited Perception of Art, Design & Architecture, Share via Whatsapp

“I don t want to be remembered for my photography, I want those I photograph to be remembered”

— Bryan Wark, Share via Whatsapp

“Kaito was busy scribbling all these thoughts before they slipped out of his head and into the void. A writer’s brain was a fickle thing—it would lose genius faster than it created it.”

— L.A. Ashton, Another Dance, Share via Whatsapp

“It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control.”

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“Artistic license was what she had heard it called, but in her eyes it was nothing more than artistic laziness.”

— Jean-Luke Swanepoel, The Thing About Alice, Share via Whatsapp

“It’s art. None of those Greek women have arms.”

— Jean-Luke Swanepoel, The Thing About Alice, Share via Whatsapp

“Listen, you mustn’t go painting my picture too well either. Not every wrinkle needs to be seen.”

— Jean-Luke Swanepoel, The Thing About Alice, Share via Whatsapp

“Graffiti is not the lowest form of art. Despite having to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually the most honest artform available.”

— Banksy, Wall and Piece, Share via Whatsapp

“Great things are not something accidental, they must be distinctly willed.”

— Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, Share via Whatsapp