Art Quotes
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Oh, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations. Thou art Everywhere, but I worship thee here: Thou art without form, but I worship thee in these forms; Thou needest no praise, yet I offer thee these prayers and salutations. Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations." - Ash
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On The Sea being filmed It's not a blockbuster and it's not going to earn half a billion in the first weekend, but it's a work of art and I'm very pleased with it.
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To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.
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There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
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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.
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I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much as the next person. So I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. That low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.
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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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One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
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Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can be born from different kinds of music and the people who appreciate them.
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Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
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He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
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When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
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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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That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.
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Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
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I'm drawn to talented, creative people who often just don't know how to support themselves - they're more focused on their work than trying to figure that out. So I commission a lot of works with artists who I like personally or professionally, and through that process, I wound up collecting a lot of art.
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I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.
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For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
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House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
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Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found. Extreme complication is contrary to art. Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
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It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.
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It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
