Ali Smith Quotes
Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
Ali Smith
Quotes to Explore
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater
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First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.
Damien Chazelle
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I've never said, 'I live for art.'
Zubin Mehta
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It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.
Barbara Hepworth
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The motto of his Robinson Jeffers’s work is 'More! More!'-but as Tolstoy says, 'A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion'; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: 'A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.'
Randall Jarrell
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I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.
Otto Dix
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What is art really? The outcome of dissatisfaction with life, the point of impact for the creative force, the continual movement of life.. ..in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.
Edvard Munch
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All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
Jerry Saltz
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I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
Pratibha Patil
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Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.
David Chalmers
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In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.
Chris Fussell
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Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
Ali Smith
