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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Anais Nin

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Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that youre born a sinner and you dont really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called Antichrist Superstar. – Marilyn Manson

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Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. – Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?

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The idea is, if I cant heal from my art, then how can you heal? – Maynard James Keenan

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I think good art does come from a dark place. – Rick Springfield

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