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“The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth”

Real Artist Imagination Fiction Written Painting Sculpture Truthfulness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn't include a single shot simply to keep our attention. He reduces each scene to its essence, and leaves it on screen long enough for us to contemplate it, to inhabit it in our imaginations. Alone among science-fiction movies, “2001'' is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our awe.”

Source: 33 Movies to Restore Your Faith in Humanity: Ebert's Essentials

“My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.”

Artist My Own Fiction Mom My Mom Visuals

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.”

Feels Art Feelings Artist Universe Emotion Fiction Fantasy Doors Keys Art Is Immense Rationality Mixtures Sailor Explorers

Author:Augusto De Luca

“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.”

Writing Mind May Persons Art Artist Interesting Fiction Primitive Impressive Dullness

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.”

“I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.”

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Author:Margaret Weis

“I want to keep working. I want to step away from young adult fiction. I want to do theater periodically - Farragut North reminded me how great it is. I started out in theater. I trained in theater and then I kind of fell into film and TV. I want to work with interesting artists, talented actors, talented directors, and talented scripts. Not necessarily leading roles.”

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Author:Max Irons

“If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.”

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Author:Ned Rorem

“I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.”

Should Book Reason Artist Felt Fiction Reason Why No Reason Confined

Book:Practicing History: Selected Essays

Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays

“We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.”

Artist Order Belief Fiction Tasks Scientist Observation Assumption Paradigm Describing

Book:A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre

Source: A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre

“I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the side of the thing. But anyway, it's the blurring of fiction and reality that was appealing and I certainly did not want them to be in the movie and not be themselves.”

Ifs Want Said Reality Artist Sides Fiction Design Fiction And Reality

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.”

“I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.”

Artist Fiction Agents Prose Serving Nonfiction Change Agent

Author:James Howard Kunstler