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“Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.”

Book:The Dream of Perpetual Motion

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“On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.”

Art Expenses Worth Paintings Costs

Book:Capital

Source: Capital

“..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.”

Art Greatness Imitation

Book:Roderick Hudson

Source: Roderick Hudson

“What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.”

Art

Book:Wicked Becomes You

Source: Wicked Becomes You

“Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.”

Art Hell

Book:Music: What Happened?

Source: Music: What Happened?

“There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of oil paintings by dead men, lit so carefully that warmth seemed to emanate from within - and not because their art was loved or understood but because it could be sold and bought for handsome sums.”

Art Money

Book:How the Dead Dream

Source: How the Dead Dream

“Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.”

Art Society

Author:Ruadhán J. McElroy

“True freedom only exists in art.The problem is you have to be incredibly good.No,I am putting it wrong:You don't so much have to be outstanding,what you really need are connections,if you don't want to be dependent on all kinds of government foundations who will impose their ideas and restrictions on you in turn.It can be touch and go in the beginning:It takes guts to let go of everything.But you make it,you're free.”

Life Art Freedom Close Up Esther Verhoef

Book:Close-up

Source: Close-up

“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.”

Art Play Stage Theater Playing Roles

Author:Stanislavski, Constantin S.

“There is no such thing as a perfect drawing, especially if you're ametur.”

Art Manga Anime

Book:Miki Falls, Volume 3: Autumn

Source: Miki Falls, Volume 3: Autumn

“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!”

Art Mozart Salieri Artistic Substance Musical History

Book:Amadeus

Source: Amadeus

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