Art Quotes
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Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
Naguib Mahfouz -
We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.
Amitabh Bachchan
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It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
Chris Van Allsburg -
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
Martin Amis -
Art is the communication of ecstasy.
Pyotr Ouspensky -
All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
Plato -
I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.
Antoine Fuqua -
If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.
Elliot W. Eisner
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.
William Dunbar -
Art is dedicated echo.
George Sandys -
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
Paul Auster -
Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.
Mena Massoud -
No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.
Pablo Picasso
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A book makes claims of literary art.
David Shields -
I struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me.
Liev Schreiber -
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc Godard -
I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at once and create works of art that are grand and sophisticated and very human at the same time so all these types of things.
Barry Ptolemy -
Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life. They only live in cold thinking. Their feelings are deeply repressed while they attach themselves forlornly to the earth.
Ishmael Reed -
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
Michel Foucault
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You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.
Nick Bantock -
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
Adam Phillips -
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
George Sutherland -
All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I think that's because our current religion is capitalism. Capitalism has the functions of patronage, commissions, control of content, bestowing of space, elevation of certain artists over others based on how much they pander to people in power, the determination of value of the work, all of it. Capitalism commissions artwork now, the market.
Chitra Ganesh