Art Quotes
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The media sells it and you live the role.
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From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.
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As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.
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I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.
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Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
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... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
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A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is a community that exists half alive.
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I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.
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I knew what a circle could do. Both eyes focus on it. It stamps itself out, like a dot. This, in turn, causes one's vision to spread, as in a mandala in Tantric art.
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Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
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One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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We must be vigilant in sharing our stories and our truths as queer parents of color at every chance we get if we hope to see art imitate real life.
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Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
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Many people do not realise that it takes considerably more art and skill to play the violin lightly than it does to play it loudly. Indeed, the best possible training for young violinists is learning to play pianissimo and without pressure.
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All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
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The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
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I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format.
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Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.
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Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
