Art Quotes
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Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
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Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
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The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.
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The history of art and art’s condition at any time are pretty messy. They should stay that way. One can think about them as much as one likes, but they won’t become neater; neatness isn’t even a very good reason for thinking about them. A lot of things just can’t be connected.
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It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had been deceiving myself the day I decided I could master the art of detachment, or maybe the mistake was to allow things to go on in that vein for as long as they had.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
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I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms.
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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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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One of the most important things in the digital world is being able to story-tell and help people envision the art of the possible with respect to different technologies.
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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I found that music was my favorite art form.
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It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
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Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.
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I do want to make powerful works of art with people, but I also just want to have fun. I've never done a romantic comedy - I'm sure it would be a blast.
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A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.
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I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black bodies in it on a museum wall... It strengthened me on a cellular level.
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I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
