Art Quotes
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Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.
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When movies tend to start to preach to me, I tend to shut them off, whether I agree with the message or not. I don't think the job of art is to preach, I think it's to ask questions and make people aware of differences and different ways of looking at things. That's what I want to do, anyway. Whether I'm successful or not, that's up to history.
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Art is our defense against hysteria and death.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.
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The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.
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Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
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My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.
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If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?
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I like art with a visible string to the world.
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Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
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Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.
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In the vaunted works of Art The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
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He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
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You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry.
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I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there.
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Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
