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“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.”

Kind Long Art Film Artist Leader Generations Poet Painter Performing Novelists Makers San Francisco Playwright Nurturing Innovators Sculptors Performing Arts Performing Artist

Author:Gavin Newsom

“Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Philosophy Ought Art Is Paint Photographer Details Painter Ruins Forsake

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.”

Thinking Believe Long Past Cases Progress Periods Painter Absurdity

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.”

Long Self Moving Journey Offers Painter Temporary Adequate Inner Self Pilgrimage High Points

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.”

Long Pay Attention Painter Recognition Categories Overjoyed

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.”

Long Has Beens Stories Social Issues Long Time Destruction Painter Novelists Filmmaker Exploration Playwright Examining

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel