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“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”

War Artist Individual Lost Modern Approach Definitions Acknowledgement Individual Life

Author:Maya Lin

“The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.”

May Made War Ends Artist Culture Growth Freedom Expression Industry Argument Being The Best Paradox Censorship Freedom Of Expression

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.”

World Ideas War Wanted Artist Certain Father Army Paint Photographer Oil Painter No Idea War Of The Worlds Sunday World War Ii World War I

Author:David Salle

“To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.”

World War Self Eye Artist Degrees War Of The Worlds Switzerland Absorption Self Absorption Narcissus Zurich

Book:Travesties

Source: Travesties

“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.”

War Enough Problem Artist Stuff Gone Forever Glory Paint Technique Impression Visuals Impressionism

Author:A. Y. Jackson

“A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train.”

Knows War Real Stories Used Artist Guy Names Known Cat Train Islam Terror London Lists Terrorist Flight Emergencies Landing War On Terror Maine Success Stories Real Success

Author:Cat Stevens

“Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.”

World Mean War Country Artist Culture Asks Understanding Moral Economy Identity Amount Europe Importance War Of The Worlds Germany Massive Strongest Berlin Second World War

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”

World Art War Artist Community Effort Solitude Art Is Flesh Select Community Living

Book:Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

Source: Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.”

War Mother Artist Father Mets Chinese Paris Bombs Axes Smuggling Provence Trapeze Cadets Trapeze Artists

Author:Colin Meloy

“Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.”

War Matter Artist Vision Busy Too Busy

Book:The Best of Marya Mannes

Source: The Best of Marya Mannes

“whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.”

May Art War Artist Simple Modern Dare Complicated Violent Innocence Works Of Art Modern War

Book:The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

“The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.”

Art War Artist Can Do Politician Threat Warning Armament

Author:Arthur Miller

“Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.”

Art War Self Artist Force Art Is Warrior Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Steven Pressfield