Art Quotes
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.
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Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
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There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
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Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
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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.
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.
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I like nature but not its substitutes. Naturalist art, illusionism, is a substitute for nature. I remember that in arguing with Piet Mondrian in Paris, 1920's, he opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion. I do not think that nature is in natural opposition to art. Art's origins are natural.
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It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.
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Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
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It is a delicate & difficult art fitting rhythm to an idea...communicating momentary phases in a poet's mind.
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As quoted in ''HEY, YOU CAN JUST MAKE STUFF UP.' Differences between magic and art: None', by Peter Bebergal, The Believer, (2013).
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We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.
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Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
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Gain confidence and you banish fear.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
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Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.
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Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
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Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
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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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Advertising is the art of persuasion.
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Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
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The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
