Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

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• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
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• I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
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• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
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• A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

  

  Jack Bowman
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• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

  

  Maggie Nelson
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• All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• What happens in the heart simply happens.

  

  Ted Hughes
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• I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.

  

  K. Flay
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• Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

  

  Walter Pater
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• I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
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• Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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• Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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• Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

  

  David Bowie
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• A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

  

  Lillete Dubey
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• To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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• The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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