Art Quotes
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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
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Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.
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Sure-hoofed is my steed impelled by the spur;The high sprigs of alder are on thy shield;Bran art thou called, of the glittering branches.
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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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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
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I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.
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Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.
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I'm not making art, I'm making sushi.
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I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.
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I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
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Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
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Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.
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No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
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A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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Doing art at Marlborough, where I went to school, was really quite tough, and I knew that it wasn't the direction I wanted to go. I'd rather show art and give people the joy of seeing it.
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Kicked in the ribs, the press says 'art' when 'ouch' would be more appropriate.
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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
