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“They’ve been seduced by their own cleverness and fail to understand the simple truth: lying is not a science, it is an art. And art will always be a human language.”

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Book:Dark Age
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“Only an idealist can be a cynic, for unless there is an ideal there is nothing to be cynical about. One does not paint a revolting image of a man and give it a cynical title unless one expects something better than degeneration in a man. Believing that, if God existed, He would have produced a better universe, Shelley took refuge in agnosticism. Yet the Christian holds that it was God who gave Shelley his notion of worth. One has yet to see an agnostic horse or a cynical cow. (From The Arts and the Christian Imagination : Essays on Art, Literature, and Aesthetics)”

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Author:Clyde Kilby (Editor) C. S. Lewis
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“در مقطعی در تاریخ مدرن، به نظر عده ی زیادی چنین آمد که حافظه و سنت صرفا بارهایی اضافه هستند که باید زمینشان بگذاریم و خودمان را از شرّشان خلاص کنیم. آن فجایع اجتماعی که در این قرن بر سر نوع بشر آمد، مددکارش هنری بود که ستایشگر بی سابقگی، تغییر مداوم، بی مسئولیتی، و آوانگاردیسمی بود که همه ی سنت های پیشین را به سخره می گرفت و به مصرف کنندگان و تماشاچیان در گالری ها و در تئاترها پوزخند می زد، و از به حیرت انداختن خواننده به جای پاسخ دادن به سؤالاتی که جان خوانندگان را عذاب می دادند، به وجد می آمد. مهم نیست که رژیم های توتالیتری که در همین دوران به حاکمیت رسیدند ادبیات آوانگارد را منحط می دانستند و رد می کردند؛ مسئله ی اساسی این بود که آن ها هم همان نگاه تحقیرآمیز آوانگاردها را به سنت و ارزش های سنتی، به حافظه و خاطره ی اصیل نوع بشر داشتند، و بعد تلاش می کردند حافظه ای جعلی و ارزش هایی کاذب به ادبیات تحمیل کنند.”

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Book:روح پراگ
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“It had been a good day. Most days were - if you set the intention for goodness. Fen held intention in high esteem. That was the role of the artist, after all: to see the world not only as it was, but as it could be. An empty stage . . . could become a forest inhabited by nine-headed birds and wise goats able to tell truth from lies. A canvas could become a lake, moony with magic toads, or a sky tangled with dragons. Surely, a day was the same. A blank page to fill with whatever made the imagination buzz. So yes, she _could_ have taken today as simply another long stretch of aching hours giving tours to sticky-fingered schoolchildren with short-tempered teachers. But what was the fun in that? No - today, she had led small, growing minds through a labyrinth of sounds and sights. She had planted tiny pipe organs in their chests that would oompah-pah in their dreams.”

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Book:Thistlefoot
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“It would have been easy to create the illustrations in this book on a computer -- to take a photo of an original artwork and edit Kitten in digitally. It was a greater challenge, and a whole lot more fun, to see if I could actually make pieces of art that looked like the originals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and blend Kitten's headlong pursuit of the mouse into them. Everything you see Kitten encountering and exploring in this book was handmade, using acrylic and oil paints, gouache, ink, plaster, wood, gold leaf, clay, paper, glass, lead, and more. Some of the techniques I used were ones that I'd done before, and some were new to me. So yes, it could have been done digitally. And now, artificial intelligence even allows us to enter a description of what we want, and in seconds, the computer spits out an image. But where's the satisfaction in that? The computer created it, not us. If you like making things, practice. Practice makes better! It takes time to develop skills so things turn out the way you want them to; the way you see them in your imagination--you can't simply leap ahead and skip all that work. But it's fun to write stories and to make pictures and build things, and I hope you'll do these things because they're satisfying. Focus on the enjoyment you get while your skills are coming along. You can make pretty much anything you want to, if you teach yourself how. If people before us could do it, why not me? Why not you?”

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Book:Cat Nap
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