Art Quotes
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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
James Frey
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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.
Nagai Sōkichi
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
Yang Lan
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Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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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.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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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.
William Reddington Hewlett
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Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Cole Sprouse
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
Dan Colen
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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.
Quentin Bryce
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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.
Edward Elgar
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Art never expresses anything but itself.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Elle Fanning
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Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
Art Blakey
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Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.
Anne Bogart
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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.
R. J. Cutler