![To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--](/assets/img/quote-photos/to-write-with-taste-in-the-highest-sense-is-to-write-so-that-no-one-commi.jpg)
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Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger. Konrad Lorenz
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For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - thats what I deeply loved. Joel Sternfeld
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People who try to commit suicide -- don't attempt to save them!... China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people. Mao Zedong
suicide let-her-go feels
... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go. John Green
suicide art pain
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful-- John Gardner
suicide block thinking
When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps! John Fogerty
suicide writing contradictory
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. John Fowles
suicide commit sane
No sane society chooses to commit national suicide. John F. Kennedy
art reality abandoned
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. Ben Nicholson
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We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us. Arthur Schopenhauer
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art blood drawing
escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you. Charles Bukowski
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A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class
artist sitting sage
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
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art pieces cheese
Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.
pain suffering facts
I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me. Anthony Kiedis
pain loneliness discontent
I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself. Anthony Hopkins
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I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth. Alison Brie
pain emotional emotional-pain
When I really need it, talking is the best way to deal with emotional pain. Alicia Keys
pain land feelings
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. Alice Stone Blackwell
pain stories bones
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. Alice Sebold
pain real flower
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
pain war heart
I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm. Alice Walker
pain people unity
No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.