Art Quotes
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I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.
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I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
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Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?
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There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.
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Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
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That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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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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What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.
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Art is that imaginative expression of human energy, which, through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion. And the greatest Art is that which excites the greatest impersonal emotion in an hypothecated perfect human being.
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Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?
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Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Our art is an adventure. It is a dream come true.
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There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.
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I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.
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I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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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.
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Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
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House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
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I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
