Art Quotes
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They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
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No arts, no letters - no society.
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
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At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let's do what's going to sell.'
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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I think the idea of art kills creativity.
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The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
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While the scale of our library is certainly attractive to our users, equally important is the quality of the content we provide and our state-of-the-art processing operation that vets every single piece of content that's submitted to ensure only the most suitable content is included.
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You see so many beautiful things happening in this world, and you see so many things that make you want to cry and crawl under a rock. But there's an underlying feeling of magic and mystery in everything that I live for. I feel like all of my art is trying to get people to see that underlying, subtle energy that lives within everything that we see and what we don't see in this world.
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Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
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Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .
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The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.
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Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.
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In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.
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The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.
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To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
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I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social change begins with thought. And so if you can find humor in something and take a moment to rethink it, you can take a step back and look at your values from a different angle. I think that's a really important way of carrying on with life. I think the best art for me is funny and the best comedy for me is art. Some of my favorite artists are comedians. Comedy is art, and art can be comedy, and the intersection is vital - at least for my own work.
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Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
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Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
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I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.
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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
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Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.
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My personal philosophy is, talk about whatever you want on a show, but it better be good. And especially if it's something that challenges folks. You don't want to be on the side of power to demean a group that is at risk. Because that's propaganda. Whenever you're on the side of power, you're not making art. Art upends power.
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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.
