F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes About Art
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
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To most women art is a form of scandal.
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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.
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When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: "Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.
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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.
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Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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