Art Quotes
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One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.
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Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.
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Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.
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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.
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Kate Moss makes you dream. She has such a passion for art and the creative process.
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Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.
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[In art], less is more.
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I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.
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I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.
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I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art.
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You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.
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Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.
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The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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I love putting the music together. It's like art
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Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.
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Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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Feeling sorry for myself was an art. I think a part of me liked doing that.
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Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.
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Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.
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I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
