Art Quotes
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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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Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
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Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
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Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.
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People who aren't artists don't think about creativity and art; they think about money.
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Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.
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Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
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Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
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Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.
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Mercury has cast aside The signs of intellectual pride, Freely offers thee the soul: Art thou noble to receive?Canst thou give or take the whole, Nobly promise and believe? Then thou wholly human art, A spotless, radiant, ruby heart, And the golden chain of love Has bound thee to the realm above.
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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
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Art is the triumph over chaos.
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All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.
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But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,Now thou art gone and never must return!
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If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
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What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.
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For me, I see filmmaking as art.
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Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.
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I have faith in my art.
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Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
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Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
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To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
