Art Quotes
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An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.
Arnold Schoenberg
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Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
Amiri Baraka
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Colin Powell
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I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.
Naomie Harris
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I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
Bil Keane
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One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
Tavi Gevinson
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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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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances.
Kano Jigoro
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Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.
Ving Rhames
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Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.
Pablo Picasso
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
Paddy Chayefsky
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It's not necessarily all about commercial success. It's about inspiring in the world and having what you do seen as art and a contribution to the world.
Chris March
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I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
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I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.
Amy Sherald
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Art is not imitation but illusion.
Charles Reade
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Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
Jane Alexander
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Samuel Johnson
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Jackson Pollock
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Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
Dave Winer
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It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.
Adrian Younge
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When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
Chris Marker
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I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.
Mario Testino