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• I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.

  Gabriel Macht

  Thinking, Here And There, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Artist, Should Have, If I Could

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• With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

  Bruce Conner

  Art, Couple, Foundation

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• When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth.

  George Nakashima

  Cutting, Men, Tree

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• Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, Art, Believe

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• You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

  Max Roach

  Running, Book, Writing

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• The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

  C.D. Wright

  Rewards, Tradition, Homelessness

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press

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• There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Quality, Saint, Moral

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

  Andre Benjamin

  Balance, Harder

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.

  Laurence Sterne

  Play, Theatre, Directors

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• I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

  David Henry Hwang

  Ideas, Car, Theatre

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• In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Order, Class

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• The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Creativity, Dark, Desire

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• All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Art, Expression

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

  Ai Weiwei

  Expression, Choices, Needs

  "Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.

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• There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

  Peter Hook

  Hate, Like Love, Lines

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• Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

  John Ralston Saul

  Believe, Simplicity, Language

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• I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

  Edith Schaeffer

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

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• It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Real, Expression, Order

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

  Dana Spiotta

  School, Trying, Acting

  "In 'Arabia,' Writing Life As You Wish You'd Lived It". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• I believe passionately that games are an art form, and that the power of our medium flows from our audience, who are deeply involved in how the story unfolds, and who have the uncontested right to provide constructive criticism. At the same time, I also believe in and support the artistic choices made by the development team.

  Ray Muzyka

  Art, Team, Believe

  "Why Bioware Needs Gamers To Make True Art" by Michael Venbles, www.wired.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

  Ansel Elgort

  Interest

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• The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

  C. S. Lewis

  Needs, Culture, Way

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• He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rap, Hip Hop, May

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• I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Giving, Desire

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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