Art Quotes
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
Maya Angelou
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Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I've done are iconic.
George Newbern
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Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.
Coleman Young
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Jacques Chirac
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
Q-Tip
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian
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Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur Erickson
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We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
Chris Marker
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I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.
Ray Davies The Kinks
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
Damian Loeb
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Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.
Linda Ronstadt
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Greatness in art is always a by-product.
Harold Rosenberg
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Andre Breton
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
Orson Welles
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Cavour
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I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Berthold Auerbach
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I feel like science and art are cousins.
Kate McKinnon
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The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
LaToya Jackson
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
Kate McKinnon
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Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Walter Murch
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I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.
Keira Knightley