Art Quotes
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Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.
Joseph Brodsky
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You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that much more. I mean, actually back in those days that was what foreign films had. They had sex, they were selling Laura Antonelli.
Quentin Tarantino
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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.
John Banville
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To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
Adolph Gottlieb
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Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.
LL Cool J
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The streets of Paris, with their shops of old furniture, etchings, and works of art, are a veritable museum, far less tiring than official museums, and from which one imbibes just as much as one can.
Auguste Rodin
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I always saw candy as art.
Dylan Lauren
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The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
Jerry Saltz
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Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
Georges Seurat
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Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
Bess Myerson
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I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.
Jason Mraz
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You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.
Ugo Mochi
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I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.
David Rockefeller
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Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.
David Ebershoff
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Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.
Leonard Peikoff
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Entrepreneurship is an art, not a job.
Steve Blank
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My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.
Fernando Botero
