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Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?
-Joyce Carol Oates
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Was It Confusing Because It Was Artistic,

Joyce Carol Oates
Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?
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Who are you?" violet asked. it is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with uncle monty's reptiles?" klaus asked. it is also confusing to realize you have been sleeping on stairs, rather than in a bed or sleeping bag. "dixnik?" sunny asked. it is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.
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What is an artistic picture? an artistic picture is very simple. the creator is not the producer. the creator is not the star. the creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. the creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. that is an artistic picture.
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Dream life, i realized, was only confusing when you were awake. it was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. but from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. not exactly an unconfusing world-just no more confusing than any other.
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No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.
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She encouraged any artistic impulse i had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse i had. they took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
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Well, i definitely have an artistic side to me as well. i write, i act, i draw. with that artistic mind i have, a lot of doors have opened for me. i can try to pursue, like - if it's something using my writing skills, maybe a book. or maybe if it's my drawing skills, some clothing designs.
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I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: geb + nut = true love or mrs geb.
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