Art Quotes
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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
D. H. Lawrence
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You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention.
George Washington
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I sell a lot of them at Art on Easy Street.
Andrea Brown
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I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.
Ernest Borgnine
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Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
Lupita Nyong'o
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I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.
Pedro Reyes
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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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We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?
Vance Havner
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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.
Zeena Schreck
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.
Jerry Saltz
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I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.
Nicole Appleton All Saints
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"You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can — that is their secret."
Hermann Hesse
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I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.
Babatunde Adebimpe
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I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.
David Thewlis
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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
John Joseph Lydon
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Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate - it is the sensation of its own realization. a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957.
Cy Twombly
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Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you’re parents want you to do, or what that beautiful girl or guy thinks you should be doing. Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go. Go out there and make the world more beautiful. I know you can.
Wayne White
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Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.
Dwayne Hickman
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After Newport, I worked in television for a while, and then I went to The Royal College Of Art and did a master's degree. I really did study quite a lot!
Asif Kapadia
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington
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Art is longer than life.
Lee Strasberg
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The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. arguing with Franz Marc who demanded in 'Der Blaue Reiter' circa 1912 a new modern art, in relation to its own - changing - time.
Max Beckmann
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I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
Mike Mills
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We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.
Asger Jorn