Honore de Balzac Quotes
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Honore de Balzac
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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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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Camille Paglia
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
Lady Gaga
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West
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Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.
Umberto Eco
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Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" No, but--" You're goddam right they don't
J. D. Salinger
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The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
Mac Thornberry
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The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.
Lawrence Welk
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In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.
Fatima Bhutto
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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Honore de Balzac
