Art Quotes
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For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
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All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.
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The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.
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Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
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I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
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Kicked in the ribs, the press says 'art' when 'ouch' would be more appropriate.
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We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.
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I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.
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France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
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I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
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Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.
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Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.
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Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
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Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
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All the art since the Renaissance seemed too men-oriented. I liked (the) object quality. An Egyptian pyramid, a Sung vase, the Romanesque church appealed to me. The forms found in the vaulting of a cathedral or even a splatter of tar on the road seemed more valid and instructive and a more voluptuous experience than either geometric or action painting.
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.
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I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
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Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
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I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
