Art Quotes
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If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
John Lancaster Spalding
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There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.
T Bone Burnett
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
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Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.
Elfriede Jelinek
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Jede Äußerung menschlichen Geisteslebens kann als eine Art der Sprache aufgefaßt werden, und diese Auffassung erschließt nach Art einer wahrhaften Methode überall neue Fragestellungen.
Walter Benjamin
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The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.
Kali Uchis
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Dave Barry
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
Freya Stark
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You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.
Marissa Mayer
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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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Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square, For Anti-War Meeting Friday." I've been operating that way ever since - that art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.
Eric Drooker
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In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
Carine Roitfeld
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Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
Flannery O'Connor
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I'm not making art, I'm making sushi.
Masaharu Morimoto
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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.
Joshua Reynolds
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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
Edward Abbey
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In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
Frank Capra
