Art Quotes
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In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
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Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
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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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While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
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I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called 'The Delta Factor,' and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art.
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When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.
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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
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Art is anything people do with distinction.
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Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
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The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
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The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators. (p. 205)
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Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.
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The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
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Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.
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I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that? It was one of the purest examples of God in art that I'd ever seen.
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There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
