Art Quotes
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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Oscar Wilde -
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
Antoni Tapies
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You will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock -
Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov -
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
Camille Paglia -
I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
e. e. cummings
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
Edmonia Lewis -
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe -
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?
Chet Baker -
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.
Alice Walton -
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde -
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
Maurice Ravel -
Art It does really really good when someone understands your art.
Till Lindemann Rammstein -
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle -
Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri -
The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
Oscar Wilde -
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
Art Blakey