Art Quotes
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Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
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Art It does really really good when someone understands your art.
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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.
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Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.
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Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.
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I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
