American Author Art Quotes

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"Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it."

Camille Paglia Topics: American Author Art

"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."

Ralph Ellison Topics: American Author Art

"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."

Susan Sontag Topics: American Author Art

"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."

Willa Cather Topics: American Author Art

"The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner."

Mary McCarthy Topics: American Author Art

"One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear."

Marilyn French Topics: American Author Art

"Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model."

Marilyn French Topics: American Author Art

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

Thomas Merton Topics: American Author Art

"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself."

Emmet Fox Topics: American Author Art

"To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call art."

Charles Bukowski Topics: American Author Art

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

Anais Nin Topics: American Author Art

"The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it."

Gertrude Stein Topics: American Author Art

"I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole life in three of four pages. I used that method."

Marguerite Young Topics: American Author Art

"He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own."

Richard Schickel Topics: American Author Art

"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such."

Og Mandino Topics: American Author Art

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