The creative act is not pure.

Nadine Gordimer
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  1. Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. - Rainbow Rowell

  2. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. - Vincent Van Gogh

  3. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. - Clive Barker

  4. Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. - Chuck Klosterman

  5. There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. - Vincent Van Gogh

More Quotes By Nadine Gordimer
  1. The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  2. Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

  3. What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling...

  4. Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

  5. Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

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