Art Quotes
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I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.
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I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.
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I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
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I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art.
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The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.
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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.
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But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
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The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.
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I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.
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Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.
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The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!
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Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
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The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
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I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all -Salma
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The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!
