Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job. - Antony Gormley

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I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

Antony Gormley

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Acceptable, Art, Job, Jobs, Things

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Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

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Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

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We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

Art, Eye, Kind, Moving, Open, Towards

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

Alive, Art, Communicate, Feels, Like, Mean

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

Body, Darkness, World

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We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.

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Rabih Alameddine

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

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Orson Scott Card

So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.

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I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

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Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.

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