Art Quotes
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The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.
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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
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No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.
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It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.
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When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.
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Let a million cultural flowers bloom! Spark an explosion of rich, creative, diversified, and exciting art in all its forms.
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The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.
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Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
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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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Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
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Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.
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When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.
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My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
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When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.
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The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art.
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I feel a kinship to the idea of beloved stories and beloved pieces of art that we can imagine in different ways and sort of take a meta approach in terms of what those stories offer us.
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Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
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Presume not that I am the thing I was.
