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.
Quotes to Explore
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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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.
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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.
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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I think the big thing is that Stephen King is just a phenomenon, and when he came along, for the first time horror was suddenly considered a very commercial genre. It had always been around, of course, but now, the books had the word 'horror' actually printed on their spines.
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I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.
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In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
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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.
