Art Quotes
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All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
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I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.
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When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.
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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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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.
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Whenever a work's structure is intentionally one of its own themes, another of its themes is art.
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Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Entrepreneurship is an art, not a job.
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Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
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I find love is the most vital part of life, of my art.
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The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.
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So wrote Pater, calling an art-for-art's sake muezzin to the faithful from the topmost turret of the ivory tower.
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A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
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Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.
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The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.
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The thinking of art seems final when The thinking of god is smoky dew.
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Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
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Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - HOW NOT TO DO IT.
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Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
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Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!
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I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.
