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The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.
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George Saunders

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A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.
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George Saunders

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Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.
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George Saunders

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Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of the Author’s Life, and lock themselves into cork-lined rooms or droop around in bars in order to whine better. But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

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The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

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I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.
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Maggie Rogers

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Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

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I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
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Annie Lennox

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Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

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Songs are here to help us: they build bridges from heart to heart.
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Mary Gauthier

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Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
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Elton John

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“Art is a house that tries to be haunted.” 
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Emily Dickinson

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"Art is to look at not to criticize."
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Edgar Allan Poe

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"There is no art without intention."

Quote by - Duke Ellington

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