Art Quotes
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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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The great difficulty and crowning glory of art is to paint, to draw, to write, naturally and simply.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.
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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
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Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Without electricity, there can be no art.
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When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling.
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If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
