Art Quotes
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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So many of the great songs are written in response to some cataclysmic event. You can't make that happen; it just happens. So you wait for life to happen, and it informs your art. And when life catches you by surprise, that can lead to the best art.
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We see the game as art as much as sport. That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.
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Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.
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If it's taught well, art really is important to kids early on. It helps children develop language and allows them to see themselves in a way that isn't right or wrong, because if they draw an animal with five legs instead of four, nobody's criticizing them for it.
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I like to learn. That's an art and a science.
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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I never believed that politics had a place in art, that is to say, not in artistic relationships.
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But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.
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if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
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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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Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
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Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.
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LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.
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When art wins, everyone wins.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....
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We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
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I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.
