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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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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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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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I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, Wheres the art? They werent doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had… maybe I could even quit renting. – P. J. ORourke

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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. – Ben Okri

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Art is the most passionate orgy within mans grasp. – John Donne

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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. – Alfred North Whitehead

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I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But mans intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. – Morarji Desai

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It is for every normal human being to be an artist. It is his divine heritage, every child is an artist. Human society kills it in us before we reach maturity. – Dudley Crafts Watson, 1918

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Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. – David Deutsch

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