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“Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.”

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Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.”

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Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader

Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader

“Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.”

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Author:Frederic Chopin

“Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.”

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Author:Gustave Courbet

“Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.”

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Book:Debt of Honor

Source: Debt of Honor

“They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?”

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Author:Ted Nugent

“Real art must always involve some witchcraft.”

Art Real Witchcraft

Author:Isak Dinesen

“The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it.”

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Author:Jeffrey Loria

“The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.”

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Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.”

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Author:Rube Goldberg

“While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.”

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Author:Saul Bellow

“There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.”

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Author:Charles Baudelaire