Art Quotes
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When we were discussing 'Holby City, 'I told the producers that I wanted the Art Malik character to be honourable, and my other requirement was that he be a Muslim, because we need Muslims on TV.
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No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
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Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
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There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They can tell you that people in an ad will get you greater readership. They can tell you that a sentence should be this short or that long. They can tell you that body copy should be broken up for easier reading. They can give you fact after fact after fact. They are the scientists of advertising. But there's one little rub. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
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Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.
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What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."
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I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.
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Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
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Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry.
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Art is literacy of the heart.
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Art is inside of you; express yourself.
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People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
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I think education and intelligence are important, but not art. Not artistic education.
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When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.
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The aesthetic is the sine qua none for art: if a work is not aesthetic, it is not art by definition.. .We feel through the senses, and everyone knows that the content of art is feeling; it is the creation of an object for sensing that is the artist’s task; and it is the qualities of this object that constitute its felt content.
