Art Quotes
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.
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For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
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We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
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I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
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No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
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I always thought of words as art supplies.
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Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
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To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.
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By Suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling.
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There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?
