Art Quotes
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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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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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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Life is God's art.
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Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.
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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
