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“An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.”

May Art Artist Audience Pieces Alive Odd Making Peace

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.”

Ifs Would Be Pieces Alive Written Worst Poet Essentials Dylan Texture

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.”

War Fighting Challenges Chance Five Pieces Alive Land Israel Small Pieces Yom Kippur

Author:Shimon Peres

“You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.”

Used Artist Quality Pieces Alive Mystery Produce Poet Paint Mediums Pot Unsaid

Book:The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu

Source: The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu

“I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.”

Source: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.”

“If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.”

People Ifs Mean Ideas Character Interesting Fiction Pieces Alive Philosophical

Author:David Foster Wallace

“All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.”

Ifs Stills Moments Pieces Alive Periods Music Is Contemporary Fades Kicking Great Music Fade Away

Author:Steve Reich

“The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.”

Humans Character Human Beings Interesting Fiction Pieces Alive

Author:Christopher Reeve

“If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you’re a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone - wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it, man. Just freaking get out there and try.”

Ifs Men Giving Trying Reason Facts Faces Hate Given Parent Half Morning Gone Grace Pieces Cutting Alive Car Mom Shots Wake Up Your Face Splits Crash Hate You Trash Your Mom Another Day Car Crash

Author:Aaron Gillespie

“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.”

Years Important Matter Process Interest Support Learning Pieces Alive Childhood Middle Subjects Particular Skills Findings Technique Related Glowing Subject Matter

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.”

“Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.”

Thinking Humans Kind Ends Whole Helping Body School Order Term Cities Pieces Alive Comfortable Concepts Structure Wholeness Human Body Literal Whole Family Dubious Sated

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.”

Ifs Thinking Years Long Two Matter Past Three Too Much Pieces Alive Written Hundred Years Ago Performances Productions Long Ago Live In The Present

Author:David Finckel

“Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy **it, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.”

Thinking Kind Stills Fun Watches Pieces Alive Blood Holy Sick Over You Get Over Fear Of Death

Author:Tara Reid

“What I've started to realize is that social media is not just technology - it's become its own entity, full of energy waves. These energy waves could be a Tweet about something you are furious about, like the Keystone Pipeline, or a piece of legislation. Instantly, energy surrounds and adds traction, influence, making it come alive”

Energy Social Realizing Technology Pieces Alive Influence Media Add Wave Social Media Surround Entity Legislation Tweet Furious Pipeline Keystones Traction Keystone Pipeline

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Within hours, tweetted piece of information you've just doled out has become a monsoon, a hurricane of tangible energy that is literally circulating the world. It's helped me sense the undeniable truth of quantum consciousness, the whole butterfly effect. I witness it daily. Being witness to it not only makes me come alive, it enables me to maintain hope.”

World Whole Energy Hours Consciousness Pieces Alive Effects Information Witness Butterfly Quantum Hurricanes Tangible Monsoons Butterfly Effect

Author:Ian Somerhalder