Art Quotes
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I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
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Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.
Abe Ajay
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Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.
Anne Truitt
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
Thomas Sowell
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One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
George Washington
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I would like to continue to make art by being able to do what I love and have that make it possible for me to support my family. I'd like to make people happy, show people a good time, and hopefully inspire some people.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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When I was a kid, I did martial arts because boxing wasn't really available on Long Island. I think now kids are able to begin boxing earlier. So it's great and whatever can promote the sport on a whole is a good thing. And if we can do it on Long Island, where I am from, it's a beautiful thing.
Chris Algieri
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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.
M.I.A.
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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Thomas A. Edison
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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc Godard
