Art Quotes
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Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ...
Kingsley Amis
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I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.
Sebastiao Salgado
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Thalberg wanted commercial hits. I wanted art.
Lillian Gish
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
Anton Chekhov
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I have a lot of lion jewellery and lion art. I also love crystals.
Jillian Hervey
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Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
James Rosenquist
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All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
Martin Filler
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The motto of his Robinson Jeffers’s work is 'More! More!'-but as Tolstoy says, 'A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion'; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: 'A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.'
Randall Jarrell
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Tea...is a religion of the art of life.
Okakura Kakuzo
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
Freya Stark
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I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences about war or anything else in life. I wanted to explore various aspects of the experience without an eye towards delivering any particular message.
Phil Klay
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I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.
Jeffrey Zeldman
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The one question, the one principle, the one crisis in art of the twentieth century centers in the uncompromising 'purity' of art, and in the consciousness that art comes from art only, not from anything else.
Ad Reinhardt
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Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!
Alexander Pushkin
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I have just read your book On the Spiritual in Art from cover to cover, and I will read it once more. I find it pleasing to an extraordinary degree, because we agree on nearly all of the main issues..
Arnold Schoenberg
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Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.
Buddy DeFranco
