Art Quotes
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc Godard -
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.
William Shakespeare
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London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.
William Dunbar -
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
M.I.A. -
I think education and intelligence are important, but not art. Not artistic education.
Brassaï -
Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
Martin Amis -
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
Humphry Davy
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Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
Phil Daniels -
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.
William Bernbach -
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
J. G. Holland -
It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.
W. H. Auden -
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
Willa Cather -
I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
Erykah Badu
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I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
David Ogilvy -
Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
Ole Hallesby -
People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.
Martine Syms -
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.
George Inness -
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats -
I've spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel 'Empire' is helping to reprogram us back to that place where we pay attention and invest emotionally in the records and the artists.
Ne-Yo
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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf -
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
Claire Messud -
Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
John Sununu -
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Susanne Langer