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“To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.”

Art Desire Art Is Over You

Author:Noah Taylor

“Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.”

Way Art Desire Teach Habit Art Is Perfection Goddess Dainty

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.”

World Children Art Desire Speak Language Natural Genius Draws Art Is Treated Innate

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.”

Art Desire Strong Habit Art Is Delight Extremes Denial Very Strong Tobacco Smokers Fruition Malaise

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.”

Knows Art Desire Born Meditation Communication Art Is Concerned Tasks Communicate

Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

“Art is emotion without desire.”

Art Desire Emotion Art Is

Author:Muriel Barbery

“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.”

“An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.”

Way Art Feelings Joy Desire Comedy Art Is Exciting Aim Comic Aesthetics Comic Art

Book:Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing

Source: Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing