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Quote by Ira Kaplan

“We try to be open to letting anything change in the moment.”

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Ira Kaplan is a renowned figure in the [Occupation/Category] field, born on January 7, 1957. His life experiences and achievements have garnered significant attention. more

“I'm asked all the time, "Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?" And the answer to that is, "No." It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination. The people who I've lived with for 10 years in my imagination are now sort of defunct. To lose them is rather a mournful process - it's not a relief.”

People Imagination Loss Novel Imaginary My Imagination

Author:Bob Shacochis

“What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in a very journalistic mode describing a character and observing a character - and that's what I do with a lot of characters in my books. And then my imagination eats them alive.”

People Book Real Character Imagination My Imagination Observing

Author:Bob Shacochis

“I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a massive international business. So, I think there's a lot of reasons why the art world as opened up and I think on the whole, it's far better for it.”

Thinking World Art Reason Art Is

Author:Will Gompertz

“The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a lot of the time they made decisions about what to do or how to behave that I had no idea were coming down the pike. As I would sit and try to inhabit a character, they themselves in my imagination would have quite a bit of free will.”

Trying Character Imagination Decision Illusion Consequence Behave Free Will My Imagination

Author:Bob Shacochis

“For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy. Within that alternate universe, the characters do have quite a bit of free will. I know it's happening in my mind and my mind alone, but they seem to have their own ability to shape their destinies. So I'm not shooting for anything. If the characters are vulnerable it's simply because they're very human.”

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Author:Bob Shacochis

“I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less white and Western, which it is still at the moment. There will be more female artists in the mix. I think we'll see art forms explored through different media - the Internet, television, books, even. We'll see art produced in forms and media that we haven't seen yet.”

Thinking World Art Book Different Moments Artist Internet Female Western Slow Down

Author:Will Gompertz

“I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas.”

Author:Will Gompertz

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