Art Quotes
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Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
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The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.
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I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.
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Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.
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If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
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Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
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Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.
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People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
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Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
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As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.
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Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
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Art makes people smile, brings people together.
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To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.
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Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.
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I want to touch on every form of art and be the best at it and be the biggest at it.
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A campaign is a complex organism that requires expensive parts. Finding the right parts and meshing them together into a cohesive working unit is an art in and of itself.
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I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.
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That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
