Art Quotes
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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That is what we are against the ancient-Greek ideas about art, because that is the key to the classic and tragic finality from which we must free ourselves.
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As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.
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My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.
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It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.
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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
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But to-day, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream; it wishes to enjoy physically. The heights and the depths of truth are indifferent to it; it is content to satisfy its bodily appetites. Mankind to-day is brutish - it is not the stuff of which artists are made.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, - either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.
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Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
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By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.
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It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.
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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
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Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.
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When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.
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There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.
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Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own.
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I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
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The object of Art is to give life a shape.
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I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.
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Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
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Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
