Quote by Anais Nin
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are fam

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. – Anais Nin

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. – Anais Nin

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Dreams
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Anxiety is loves greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. – Anais Nin

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Love
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Anais Nin
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then dont write, because our culture has no use for it. – Anais Nin

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Art
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Rules and models destroy genius and art. – William Hazlitt

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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. – Jimmy Carter

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. – Victor Hugo

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Art

Its art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isnt about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – contain multitudes. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

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The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. Its also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. – Chris Van Allsburg

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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. – Samuel Richardson

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