Paul Valery Quotes
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
Paul Valery
Quotes to Explore
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
Ville Valo
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Oscar Wilde
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
T. C. Boyle
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
Floyd Skloot
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom
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Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Daniel Bell
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt
