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“You’d like to be able to go to work and have everything be smooth, but there’s some weird artistic gene in some of us. It can feel like a curse, because it makes you push yourself to make things better and not allow them to be easy. That’s how you get the good stuff.”—Eddie Vedder

“In writing songs I’ve learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.”—Bob Dylan

“Every artist was first an amateur.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some suggestions to satisfy your reading, viewing and listening appetite throughout the weekend… Read more…

‘roll the dice’

By Charles Bukowski
from What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.

‘the word’

By Charles Bukowski
from Bone Palace Ballet

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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.

‘no nonsense’

By Charles Bukowski
from You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.

“Ideally, each piece of art’s its own unique object, and its evaluation’s always present-tense.”—David Foster Wallace

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference the lightning-bug and the lightning.”—Mark Twain

‘upon reading a critical review’

By Charles Bukowski
from Betting on the Muse

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The Madness of Art presents Reading Buk—nightly readings of selected works of Charles Bukowski—as a special series during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2009.