Art Quotes
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There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
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One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.
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It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
