Art Quotes
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Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.
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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
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But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.
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For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
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There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.
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In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.
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The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.
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It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.
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We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
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I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
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A lot of TV can be linear and cinematic and formulaic. What's to say that people can't be creative and surreal - and push boundaries? You can look at a piece of art and not necessarily know what it means or what the artist intended by it. It's the effect it has on you.
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I think 21st century should be art without objects.
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Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.
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Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
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I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.
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I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.
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Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.
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Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool
