Art Quotes
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You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.
William Melmoth
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There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.
Philip Schultz
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My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking purely through colour.. .And now I leave these small – but to me – important works to the future and to the people who love art.
Alexej von Jawlensky
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Thinking in art and morals and even mathematics is neither the reflection in consciousness of a mechanical order in the brain nor the tracing with the mind’s eye of some empirical order in its object, but an endeavour to realize in thought an ideal order which would satisfy an inner demand. The nearer thought comes to its goal, the more it finds itself under constraint by that goal, and dominated in its creative effort by aesthetic or moral or logical relevance. These relations of relevance are not physical or psychological relations. They are normative relations that can enter into the mental current because that current is . . . teleological. Their operation marks the presence of a different type of law, which supervenes upon physical and psychological laws when purpose takes control.
Brand Blanshard
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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats
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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
Douglas Sirk
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Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.
Mena Massoud
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But it was all nothing and that was the artistic expression: Nothing. And nothing can be art. And more than that, nothing is the best art.
Chris Campanioni
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The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.
Eli Siegel
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There's no need to put a dumb picture of us on the album cover. We always look at ourselves and think, 'Wow, we look like idiots.' We'd rather have a piece of art on there.
Matthew Ramsey
Old Dominion
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
Alexandre Dumas
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When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.
Bruno Tonioli
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
George Bernard Shaw
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin
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People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.
Kevin Macdonald
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I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.
Terence McKenna
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Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.
William Gaddis
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Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.
Sivamani
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This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.
Seth Godin
