Craig Raine famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
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Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
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I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.
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Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain.
-- Craig Raine
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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
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The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.
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What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
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