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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. -- Louise Bogan
My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life. -- Pat Conroy
The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. -- Tim Crouch
Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women. -- Lauren Beukes
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being. -- bell hooks
This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them. -- Jack Bowman
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. -- Susan Vreeland
Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence. -- Kenji Tomiki
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. -- Leo Tolstoy
If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome. -- Teller
I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness. -- Raymond Pettibon
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian. -- Mason Cooley
The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. -- Tim Crouch
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. -- Tim Crouch
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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