“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.”
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Retro Quote – Claes Oldenburg
“I am for an artist that is political-erotical-mystical; that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.”
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Retro Quote – Sylvia Plath
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Retro Quote – John Vance Cheney
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Retro Quote – Virginia Woolf
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.”
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Retro Quote – Anaïs Nin
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
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Retro Quote – Chinua Achebe
“The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
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Retro Quote – Bernard Williams
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Retro Quote – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
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