Art Quotes
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.
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I have a strong art-history background.
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I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
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I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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If cooking is an art, I think we're in our Dada phase.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
