Art Quotes
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Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its ‘manner,’ in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.
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These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
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The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
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A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is a community that exists half alive.
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Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
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Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn't state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.
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I was always exploring relationships between art and science.
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.
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Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
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Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.
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The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
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I have a growing resume, but it's because I'm very selective. There are a lot of actors in my position that are like me: they have an opportunity to make a lot of money early in their career, and they do that, and after that, there's nothing to sustain that. There's no art or interest in your craft from the people that want to see you.
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The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
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The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
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Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.
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The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
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No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
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I've loved art for more than 30 years.
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I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
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The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.
