Art Quotes
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
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I don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out, 'Gosh, I wonder how guys feel,' because most every piece of art I look at invites me into that experience.
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Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.
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It's always hard for an artist from the U.K. to break into the United States. It's especially harder for a rapper because hip-hop is such an American art form.
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Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.
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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
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When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.
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In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
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Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.
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Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
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But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.
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Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
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The art of life is loving and listening to one another.
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A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.
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Art is spiritual.
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Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
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Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.
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The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one's ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya.
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They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
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The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
