Art Quotes
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Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
William Shakespeare
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Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.
Jerry Yang
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
Banksy
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Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
John Baizley Baroness
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
George Jean Nathan
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Because he attempted to tell in his painting 'The Jewish Cemetery' painted by Ruisdael, that which is outside the reach of art... .there are ruins to indicate old age, a stream to signify the course of life, and rocks and precipices to shadow forth its dangers. But how are we to discover all this?
John Constable
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As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
Frank Moore Colby
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And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.
Martin Feldstein
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Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
Joanna Scott
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I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.
William Hogarth
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I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
Douglas Coupland
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I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.
John Dyer
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The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.
Paul Klee
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
William Shakespeare
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It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.
John Baizley Baroness
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The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
William Hazlitt
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In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.
Jennifer Chiaverini
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Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
Frank Ocean
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Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.
Andreas Feininger
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I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
Barry McGee
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I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.
Alessandro Michele
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As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.
John Slattery
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When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.
Jim McKay