Art Quotes
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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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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.
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People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.
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paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
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What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.
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Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.
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It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.
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In art one idea is as good as another.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
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Didacticism is the death of art.
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
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For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen's head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I didn't realise.
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I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.
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A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
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Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.
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I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.
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That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.
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This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
