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The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching. — Maurice Blanchot

Genius is the art of taking pains — Claude C. Hopkins

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar. — Christina Westover

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

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art. — Patricia A. McKillip

As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night. — Daniel J. Rice

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. — Debasish Mridha

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people. — Charles Ray

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building? — Sara Sheridan

The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for. — Robert McKee

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. — Christian Bauman

One of the great things about art is you get to see what your concerns are, what those things tumbling around inside you are. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. — Elizabeth McGovern

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity. — Christopher Morley

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities. — Chris Campanioni

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul. — Ndiritu Wahome

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it. — David Hare

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form. — Clint Eastwood

But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot — Robert Lowell

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Writing is the most solitary of arts. — Joyce Carol Oates

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written. — Elizabeth Kenny

Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future. — Kevin James Breaux

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. — Victor Hugo

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. — Steven Pressfield

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse

Music, art, writing ... it's like some
magical psychic drainage. A way of
tapping into the bigger picture of all
it is to be human. — Lou Rhodes

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood. — Alan Sillitoe

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. — Hubert Selby Jr.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing. — Ren Garcia

The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality — Udayveer Singh

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response. — Mary Gaitskill

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion. — Rachel Cusk

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman

Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They'll never live the way you live. Go do it. — Ray Bradbury

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. — John Steinbeck

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat. — Dorothy Parker

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. — Joyce Carol Oates

Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss? — Fennel Hudson

The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination — Danielle M. Maistry

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul — Albert Camus

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. — Logan Pearsall Smith

What is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd? ... — John Geddes

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination. — Sol Saks

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word. — Cathryn Louis

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. — Jyrki Vainonen

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window. — Barbara Kingsolver

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. — Jean-Francois Chevrier

Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life. — A.D. Posey

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. — Gustave Flaubert

The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair. — Jerry Stahl

On Writing About Nora Hawks
I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. — Dennis R. Miller

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral ... — Jorge Luis Borges

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. — Walter Darby Bannard

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest — Claude C. Hopkins

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters. — Cynthia Ozick

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop. — Josh Billings

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing. — Ann Patchett

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time. — Oscar Wilde

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato. — George Berkeley

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience. — Paul Theroux

Writing is the process of making my soul tangible on paper. — Me

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce. — John Gardner

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone. — Pat Schneider

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. — Edward Dahlberg

It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention. — Ted Dekker

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Per Brinch Hansen

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does. — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini

A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble. — Lori Lesko

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing. — Peter Schjeldahl

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. — Ben Hecht

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. — Stephen King

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing. — Neil Patrick Harris

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. — John Steinbeck

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels. — Fukuzawa Yukichi

Art is the overflow of emotion into action. — Brian Raif

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. — Philip Gerard

Remember The Poem ... — R.M. Engelhardt

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does. — Anne Roiphe

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. — Haruki Murakami

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. — Stephen King

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing ... — Alan Dapre

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough. — James Salter