Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
Vincent Van Gogh
Quotes to Explore
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B. F. Skinner
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
Ed Parker
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
Salmon P. Chase
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Ian Hacking
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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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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
Bat for Lashes
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
Damien Chazelle
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Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
Nathan Myhrvold
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.
Haris Pasovic
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My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.
Andrew Card
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It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
David Hockney
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith
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At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel really stagnant, waiting for a part. I was also taking classes at UCB and Groundlings, and at the higher levels, they focus on writing. It was such a relief to be able to write. During those programs, I wrote a one-woman show called Me, Myself, and Iran, and it ended up getting to Tina Fey. She recommended me to audition for SNL, so I got my first of two auditions through her.
Nasim Pedrad
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As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
Vincent Van Gogh
