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“sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.”

Book:The Fine Art of Truth or Dare

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“No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without going snivelling to God about sin, my own or other people's. How would it profit a man if he got into a tight place, to call he people who put him there miserable sinners? Or himself a miserable sinner? I disliked the levelling aspect of this sinnerdom, it was like a cricket match played in a drizzle, where everybody had an excuse - and what a dull excuse! - for playing badly. Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I didn't want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner. But the idea of goodness did attract me, for I did not regard it as the opposite of sin. I saw it as something bright and positive and sustaining, like the sunshine, something to be adored, but from afar.”

Life God Sin Good

Book:The go-between

Source: The go-between

“Naked and sullen his street boy senses darted around the room for scraps of advantage-”

Art Cut Up Method

Book:The Soft Machine

Source: The Soft Machine

“Poetry is allowed in expressing philosophical theories, insofar as it is not used as part of its arguments, but simply as a means to better communicate its already sound theories.” (Introduction: What is poetry (in the twenty-first century)?)”

Art Philosophy Communication Intellectual Poetry Quotes

Book:The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection of Poems

Source: The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection of Poems

“Art in all its forms is simply a means to communicate, not a means to generate knowledge.”

Art Philosophy Communication Aesthetics Critical Thinking

Book:The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection of Poems

Source: The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection of Poems

“You can be whatever you want to in life, as long as you don't become a critic. Not of other people and not of yourself. It is so easy to be a critic, any coward can do that. But art does not need critics, art has enough enemies already. Art needs friends.”

Art Creativity Critics

Book:My Friends

Source: My Friends

“Only for those prepared to leave their familiar life behind, will life emerge in a new gown of continually expanding beauty and perfection. But in order to attain such a state, it is necessary to achieve stillness in both thought and feeling.”

Art Artist Painter Sweden

Author:Hilma af Klint

“artists create works of art; geniuses curate an emotional response.”

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Book:Immaculate Conception

Source: Immaculate Conception

“Bad feelings can be good for art, but unchecked, they’re destructive.”

Art Emotions Artists Life Emotions And Attitude Emotions And Feelings

Book:Squid Teeth: A Tor Original

Source: Squid Teeth: A Tor Original

“I am one one only one still one who can do something not everything but not nothing. I am one one only one still one who can join with others who are doing something same lane different lanes leading following making noise making fun making art making love making a difference.”

Love Art Action Fun Impact Noise One Make A Difference Do Something Not Nothing Not Everything

Author:Shellen Lubin

“You are one one only one still one who can do something not everything but not nothing. Pick a lane. Find a task. Make noise. Make fun. Make art. Make love. Make a difference.”

Love Art Action Fun Noise Make A Difference Do Something Not Nothing Not Everything

Author:Shellen Lubin

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