Art Quotes
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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
Peter Medawar
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For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.
Jacques Audiard
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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
Laura Riding
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
Maya Lin
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I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era for style and design.
Jenny Packham
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
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I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
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Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.
Dasha Zhukova
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The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.
Del Close
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Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
Tony Kushner
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Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.
Mark Spitz
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A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
Adele Exarchopoulos