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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we dont know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. – Anais Nin

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Death
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. – Anais Nin

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Dreams
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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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These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like Im a flesh-eating virus. – Jerry Saltz

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. – Alexander Pope

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Art

Art seduces, but does not exploit. – Mason Cooley

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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. – Salvador Dali

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I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then Ive asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. Thats really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done. – Leonardo DiCaprio

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Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

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