William Cowper Quotes
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
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The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'
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Art is my life and my life is art.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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So long as men hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify It - there can be no peace ‘within’ a nation and no peace among nations.
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Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.
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When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
