Art Quotes
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.
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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.
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I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.
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Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.
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I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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I used to love to look at cover art for vinyls.
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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
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The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.
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Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.
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Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.
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If it's good art, it's good.
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I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.
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Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
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I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
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I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.
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Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.
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I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.
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I've committed myself to perfecting the art of the straight man. I try really hard not to crack up.