Art Quotes
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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.
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Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
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Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.
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What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
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I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
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We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.
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The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.
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I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of possible to experience
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The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.
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I used to think fashion was silly, and now I think it can be one of the purest expressions of art.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.
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I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.
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It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
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The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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I'm just gonna make art myself. I have a lot of ideas of things I wanna do and really talented people and friends I'm around, so we decided to make our own thing and set out to do it.
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I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
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There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
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The motion picture is the people's Art.
