Art Quotes
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I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
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People who are looking for art in rock 'n' roll or pop are looking for something that either doesn't or shouldn't exist.
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Thespis, the first professor of our art,At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.
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"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.
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For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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The craftsmanship that Hollywood has always used as a selling point not only doesn’t have much to do with art - the expressive use of techniques - it probably doesn’t have very much to do with actual box-office appeal, either.
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The word 'star' is misused. A good film will never fail. And if you have become an actor to become a star, then your reason of being in this profession is wrong. It amounts to abusing the art.
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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
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The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators. (p. 205)
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
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To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.
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The thing about conceptual art is that it has no solid or finite meaning. So the work can exist simultaneously in many minds at once, and all those minds can see it differently. The artist offers the clues. The spectator offers the reading. You see what you want to see.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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The realization that The Art of Obscurity is my 25th solo album prompted me to do some deep thinking about where I am, where I’m going and what I still want to achieve from this life in music. In my heart I feel vital and passionate about the creative process and that my best work is the next one I finish. It doesn’t necessarily work out that clean, but for me, it can be the only touchstone.
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I think that when Riccardo Tisci wanted to bring more attention to the lack of African American presence on the runway, he also wanted to bring attention to the lack of a sensibility of African and Asian art.
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It's always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than this performance? Art is so subjective.
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I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.
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In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.
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Sleep is no mean art.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.
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Just as a Philistine does not on the whole devote his life to his art, so a misogynist does not devote his inner life to women. Larkin's men friends devolved into pen-pals. Such intimacies as he shared, he shared with women.
