Art Quotes
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Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.
Kevin Wilson
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Art is ultimately schizophrenic.
Oliver Emberton
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The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so weird. Crying at a movie? I'm not supposed to do that. So weird.' I didn't know that art could make you do that.
Ansel Elgort
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The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.
Kehinde Wiley
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Eric Gill
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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.
Jerry Saltz
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Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.
Peter Storey
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I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.
Vincent Price
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I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.
John Sayles
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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
George Bernard Shaw
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'These games are marvelous,' Amanda said. 'I like them especially because they are so meaningless and boring, and trivial. These qualities, once regarded as less than desirable, are now everywhere enthroned as the key elements in our psychological lives, as reflected in the art of the period as well as-'
Donald Barthelme
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People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.
Eli Broad
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What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.
Jon Glaser
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You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.
Lynda Resnick
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I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.
Jandy Nelson
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Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.
Stefon Harris
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In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists
Paul Gauguin
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Sleep is no mean art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.
John Allison
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Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
Deborah Wiles
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
Plato
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You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.
Nick Bantock
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Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
Robert Frost