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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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst 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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. – William Wordsworth

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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. – Stanley Kubrick

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Life is very nice, but it lacks form. Its the aim of art to give it some. – Jean Anouilh

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – C. S. Lewis

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