Liam O'Flaherty quotes
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“It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.”
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“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.”
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“Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?”
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“When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.”
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“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
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Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.
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“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”
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Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press
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“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”
Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
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