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“If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.”

Ifs Artist Natural Darkness Design Lightness

Author:Sara Genn

“Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.”

Needs Writing Sometimes Shows Artist Natural Creativity Darkness Painting Obvious Protection Finished Tendencies Ignored Artists And Writers Being Ignored

Book:The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.”

Artist Fall Actors Hours Memories Silence Darkness Stage Produce Divine Poet Musician Evidence Theater Missions Painter Curtains Sculptors

Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”

Men World Humans Children Purpose Artist Loses Cities Roles Darkness Forever Mines Duty Sight Forests Conquer Wilderness Feds Precise Conquest Dwelling Swamps Drained Dwelling Place

Author:James A. Baldwin