Art Quotes
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
Auguste Renoir
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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
Alan Rickman
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Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.
Alfred Brendel
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My wedding dress is a piece of art that I'll treasure forever. It was designed and created by Zac Posen. I gave him only the tiniest bit of direction when he started, and the end product was more beautiful than anything I could have imagined.
Coco Rocha
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On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
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Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.
Bret Stephens
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We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.
Doug Aitken
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The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
Hermann Hesse
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Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.
Arthur Rubinstein
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Common sense is not really so common.
The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic
Antoine Arnauld
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It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
Jerry Saltz
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean Nathan
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The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
Rudolf Arnheim
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Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
Kevin Kelly
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When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
Jerry Saltz
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I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it.
Ai Weiwei
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A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.
Jacques d'Amboise
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But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
