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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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. – Anais Nin

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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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Truth is something which cant be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. – Anais Nin

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Art and science have their meeting point in method. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

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If you dont get noticed, you dont have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks. – Leo Burnett

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The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. – Jerry Saltz

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