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“Books are the way the dead talk to the living.”

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Laurie Anderson, born on June 5, 1947, is an American artist known for her multimedia performances, visual art, and music. Her works blend sound, visual, and performance art, exploring themes of personal identity, technology, and culture. more

“Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.”

People Feels Art Inspiration Faces Music Inspire Musician Albums Crafts Feats Disrespectful Beyonce

Author:Kanye West

“... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.”

Want Artist Security Great Art Great Artist Materialistic

Author:Brenda Ueland

“... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.”

Trying Firsts Clear First Time Paint Oil Boxing Accurate Pie Mud Gloves Boxing Gloves Mud Pies

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.”

Serious Jokes Treats Serious Things

Book:Seven Plays

Source: Seven Plays

“Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.”

Giving Kind Mean Persons Book Ideas Facts Helping Reading Individual Speak Language Common Effects Communication Efficient Composing Shorthand

Author:Charles Scribner IV

“A man without trust is a man without life.”

Men Life Without Trust

Author:Robert Jordan

“We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.”

Limits

Book:The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

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