Art Quotes
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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
William Blake
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Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant.
Ellen Dissanayake
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I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.
Carson Ellis
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It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?
Ed Kowalczyk
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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Religion is the supreme art of humanity.
Abba Hillel Silver
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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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To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.
William Empson
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I feel a kinship to the idea of beloved stories and beloved pieces of art that we can imagine in different ways and sort of take a meta approach in terms of what those stories offer us.
Karyn Kusama
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A campaign is a complex organism that requires expensive parts. Finding the right parts and meshing them together into a cohesive working unit is an art in and of itself.
Peter Navarro
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The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
Alan Villiers
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Love is the true art.
Woo Ji-ho
Block B
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I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.
Lisa Cholodenko
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Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.
David Milch
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People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
Victoria Legrand
Beach House
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Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.
Carrie Mae Weems
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For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.
John Donne
