Art Quotes
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Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
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I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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Art is a way of life.
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Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.
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Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!
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The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
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No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.
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I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.
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The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
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I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.
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How can art be realized?
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
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When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
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I prize thy gentle heart, Free from ambition, falsehood, or art, And thy good mind, Daily refined, By pure desire To fan the heaven-seeking fire.
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All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
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The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
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Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
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You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.
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Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.
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Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.
