Art Quotes
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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Art is the daughter of freedom.
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Moralists have no place in an art gallery.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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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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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.
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My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
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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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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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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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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
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Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
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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.