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Writing is a craft not an art.

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Writing is a craft not an art.

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Writing is hard work.

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A writer is always working.

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Writing is thinking on paper.

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Thought is action in rehearsal.

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Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton Former Viceroy Of India

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Giannina Braschi Writer

One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

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In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Alfred Stieglitz Photographer

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.

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Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.

Antony Gormley Sculptor

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