Makaze Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Art is an ideal we strive towards and how we strive toward it. Art is the point. A life without art is a life without contrast, juxtaposition, beauty or passion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedoom Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Art can play the role of a divider as well as a unifier. Art is the product and the process. You could even say its a struggle between collectivism and individualism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEnd Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 a necessary distraction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Refa Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Debating what is art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freohr Datia Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 (edited) pretty stuff to look at~! (well, ok sometimes not so pretty) (and sometimes it's not something to look at) but generally, to me it's just there and it's something I love appreciatin0g if you couldn't tell, I don't have deep thoughts oh I just want to point out that I typed this post while I wasn't wearing contact lenses so that glaringly obvious typo was not so obvious to me before Edited January 29, 2017 by Freohr Datia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTemps Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 One form of emotion >o< too deep lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euklyd Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 dank emoji copypastas or just emoji in general ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaMonkey Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I appreciate it for what it is, but I'm really not a big art lover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I don't really care about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rezzy Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeheza Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Anything that is able to greatly stimulate any of my five senses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solrocknroll Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Art is necessary for life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanarkin Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 It is something worth appreciating... As long as it isn't ridiculous shit like empty canvases, or calling scribbles artistic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koneko Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 it's a nice outlet to express all sorts of feelings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinumi Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 An alternative way to express oneself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
___ Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Human nature at its best and worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowess Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Nice!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 life imitates art etc. QOTD 1128 - Post an excerpt from a book that you thought had POWERFUL WRITING! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maybe Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 i can't do that because i don't know any! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Karnage Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 noting at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeraldfox Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 "I'll even tell you a fun little story I made up about two caterpillars on a little leaf boat!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euklyd Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 (edited) I've posted the quote I have ready at hand before, so I'll skip that, esp. because it's not as POWERFUL WRITING as others I could think of. I'd rather pick something from Anathem or Snow Crash or The Name of the Wind. Of these the first's powerful writing is of a long-winded sort, and the second is more flippant than anything. In The Name of the Wind, Kvothe said: “I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me." Special bonus quotes: Spoiler In The Name of the Wind, Kvothe also said: “Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.” In The Name of the Wind, Skarpi said: “All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.” Edited January 30, 2017 by Euklyd messing w/ html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euklyd Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 maaan basically all the good anathem quotes are massive spoilers as to the true nature of the book itself In Anathem, Fraa Erasmus wrote: So I looked with fascination at those people in their [cars], and tried to fathom what it would be like. Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy. But it would be easy to see a will at work behind this: not exactly an evil will, but a selfish will. The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euklyd Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I'm assuming we're talking about prose works here, rather than including, say, mangos. Because I already can't decide on quotes from a handful of normal books, let alone zillions of mangos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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