Art Quotes
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My life is art. Its how I express God.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
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There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
