Art Quotes
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Alexander Pope
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Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.
Derek Sivers
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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
Leonard Baskin
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Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
Terence McKenna
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Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of demagogues everywhere.
Bret Stephens
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The streets of Paris, with their shops of old furniture, etchings, and works of art, are a veritable museum, far less tiring than official museums, and from which one imbibes just as much as one can.
Auguste Rodin
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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
David Paradine Frost
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The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.
Scott Cohen
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When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
Jill Scott
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You see, for me art's not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.
Arno
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Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.
Akshay Kumar
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Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
John Maeda
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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
Rickie Lee Skaggs
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It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.
Yagyu Munenori
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Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.
Lilli Palmer
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After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
David Sedaris
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There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.
Fairfield Porter
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Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.
Jimmy Buffett
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Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
Dave Hickey
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Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
Antony Gormley
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All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
Alexander Alekhine
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As quoted in ''HEY, YOU CAN JUST MAKE STUFF UP.' Differences between magic and art: None', by Peter Bebergal, The Believer, (2013).
Alan Moore