Art Quotes
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The ability... to experiment with imaginary situations, gives man a freedom... the pleasure in trying out and exploring imaginary situations. A child's play is concerned with this pleasure; and so is much of art, and much of science... Pure science... is a form of play, in this sense.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
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Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
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I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
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Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
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There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
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It’s very important to be able to accept things, you know. Gracious acceptance is an art – an art which most of never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
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In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.
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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.
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I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!
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In war we are all equal, but among a thousand good men, a bullet hit an irreplaceable one.. .We painters know well that with the loss of his harmony of August Macke , the color in German art will become many shades paler..
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It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.
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The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
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I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
