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We are perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures the worrying animal. We worry away our lives fearing the future discontent with the present unable to take in the idea of dying unable to sit still.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate it goes on to become.
Quotes By W. H. Auden
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Of all possible subjects travel is the most difficult for an artist as it...
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When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a shabby curate...
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of...
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary...
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No good opera plot can be sensible for people do not sing when they are...
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but...
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A poet is before anything else a person who is passionately in love with...
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Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but...
Quotes About Art
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Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone...
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In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about...
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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and...
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I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues ' this black comedy...
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I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to...
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There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the...