Art Quotes
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All art requires courage.
Anne Wilkes Tucker
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The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.
Emily Haines
Broken Social Scene
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Not only do they offend thee, O Lady, who outrage thee, but thou art also offended by those who neglect to ask thy favors ... He who neglects the service of the Blessed Virgin will die in his sins ... He who does not invoke thee, O Lady, will never get to Heaven ... Not only will those from whom Mary turns her countenance not be saved, but there will be no hope of their salvation ... No one can be saved without the protection of Mary.
Bonaventure
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Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.
Austin Osman Spare
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I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.
Erno Rubik
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In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
E. M. Forster
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Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Tina Weymouth
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I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.
Brian Stelfreeze
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The principle of this art as Mondrian proposes his view on modern art is not a negation of matter, but a great love of matter, whereby it is seen in the highest, most intense manner possible, and depicted in the artistic creation.
Piet Mondrian
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
John Milton
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All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.
Armand Trousseau
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.
William Gurnall
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There is no such thing as an immortal work of art. There is one art - the greatest of all, the art of making a complete human being of oneself.
Alfred Richard Orage
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In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
Dan Graham
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.
Michael Leunig
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I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation. My sense of space and material has a lot to do with having been a chicken-killer and working with cows.
Carolee Schneemann
