31 Quotes About Artistic-endeavor
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Most artists wish to receive acclaim for a body of work that will withstand the test of time. Ancient Greece culture produced many works of fiction, history, mythology, drama, and philosophy that scholars consider timeless classics. The classics of Ancient Greece greatly influenced the development of Western Civilization.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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The work of the artist is to depict humankind and nature for how it actually is. Life as well as the written words of many learned writers teaches us about the world. We develop an orderly and differentiated system of personal consciousness by responding to the world, organizing, and integrating our accumulated knowledge gained via evocative personal experiences and through reading the shared thoughts of writers, philosophers, scientists, and other erudite thinkers.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with other human beings.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part of the space and time dimensions that we live in. We use memory and imagination to write stories in order to bridge our fear of nothingness and offset our trepidation of paddling into the river of insanity. We write into the heart of darkness and flirt with oblivion in order to ascribe meaning to our lives and to immortalize the people who we love.
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- Author Michael Bassey Johnson
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Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth.Art lives on but wealth diminishes.
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- Author Mark Van Doren
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Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
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- Author Joe leigh-Corrigan
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The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win.
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- Author allen ginsberg
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A naked lunch is natural to usWe eat reality sandwiches.But allegories are so much lettuce.Don't hide the madness.
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