Art Quotes
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No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
William Butler Yeats
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Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
William Shakespeare
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Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
Charles L. Grant
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
Charles de Gaulle
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Refinement is a sign of a deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.
Emil Cioran
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Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Jose Bergamin
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Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School
Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.
Tony Danza
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To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.
Choi Hong Hi
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
Seth Godin
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The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).
William Francis Buckley
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Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?
Miguel de Unamuno
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Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that dreams and imagines and creates. Reading can usually do this for writers, but sometimes you also need to watch films, listen to music, go to an art museum, or see a play. Or just sit outside and soak up the sky.
Barbara Mattes Abercrombie
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There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care; And everywhere that we can be, Thou, God art present there.
Isaac Watts
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Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are based on real life" and so on... Well, I don't believe that. I think that as human beings many people touch us, especially people we love the most and we can't help but do character sketches when we go to our art.
Sandra Cisneros
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The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
Allan Kaprow
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The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations - that was the whole point of the Brillo Boxes and Campbell's Soup Cans. And believe it or not, in 2009, moronic journalists are still saying to me, 'Your work is so commercial.'
Peter Marino
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It's like with any art, there's always something new to develope, new colours, deepness, awareness, beauty. Each generation has new fields to develope, to work out, making life itself into art.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius