Art Quotes
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In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of affective communication between people.
 Leo Tolstoy
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I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.
 Jim Lee
					 
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
 Damien Hirst
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As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.
 Van Deren Coke
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Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn't afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to pay the bills.
 Hannah Bronfman
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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
 F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art.
 Christoph Martin Wieland
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Jede Äußerung menschlichen Geisteslebens kann als eine Art der Sprache aufgefaßt werden, und diese Auffassung erschließt nach Art einer wahrhaften Methode überall neue Fragestellungen.
 Walter Benjamin
					 
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In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.
 E. O. Wilson
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What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.
 Brendan Gleeson
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I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor.
 David Harewood
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Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
 Okakura Kakuzo
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
 Carole King
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
 Oliver Goldsmith
					 
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"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.
 Tom Stoppard
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I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
 James Mercer Broken Bells
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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
 Jane Smiley
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As an artist, you're taking your experiences and placing them into your art. So the more experiences you have, the richer your art and more people can relate to it.
 Anderson Paak
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Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
 Aaron Betsky
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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..
 Franz Marc
					 
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For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.
 Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
 Friedrich Schleiermacher
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I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.
 Jaye Davidson
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If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.
 Emma Watson