Art Quotes
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You will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe -
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
e. e. cummings -
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?
Chet Baker -
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock -
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso
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I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.
Alice Walton -
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
Edmonia Lewis -
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde -
Art It does really really good when someone understands your art.
Till Lindemann Rammstein -
I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives
Barack Obama
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I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
Camille Paglia -
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov -
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
Oscar Wilde -
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
Maurice Ravel -
Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
Alvar Aalto -
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
James Frey