Art Quotes
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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I always thought of words as art supplies.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.
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I feel like science and art are cousins.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.
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There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
