"Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses."

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Kenneth Rexroth

#Art Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it, particularly now. A picture's not the world, but a new thing.”
“Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie â€“ or the gods, for that matterâ€¦Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itselfâ€¦the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.”
“I'm forming a charitable institution for education.”
“The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.”
“It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.”
“I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.”
“Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.”
“The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.”

Source : Charles Templeton (1955). “Life Looks Up”, New York : Harper

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