Art Quotes
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Life is God's art.
Larry Norman
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
Malcolm Mclaren
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Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Art must not serve might.
Karel Capek
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
Barnett Newman
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
D. H. Lawrence
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So living Nature, not dull Art,Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.
John Henry Newman
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Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.
Morna Anne Murray
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
Jack O'Connell
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
Yuri Lowenthal
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Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I've done are iconic.
George Newbern
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Andre Breton
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt
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'Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,' I quoted.
Kage Baker
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
Irving Stone
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
Pam Grier
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The world as a sense, independent of the image, of the idea - this is the essence of the content of art. My square is not an image, just as a switch or socket are not the current. - Malevich
Kazimir Malevich
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The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.
Yousuf Karsh
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The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
LaToya Jackson
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Madame de Stael
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
K. D. Lang