Art Quotes
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Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.
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Art is a jealous mistress.
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The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.
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I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the shape, I don't know what it is in this script that makes it so universal. But even if you don't understand it, you still have this feeling; you can feel the piece of art in front of you.
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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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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
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There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets tiresome. I think the artist's first obligation is to the art, not to the issues . . . I think if I have something to say the best way to do that is just to tell a damn good story.
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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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I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.
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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
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I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
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An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else
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Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.
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A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.
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The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.
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Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.
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The struggle between art and mastery is like the struggle between spontaneity and persistence. When they become one, it is indeed rare and hard won.
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Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different perspective. It's not just an advertisement with one single message that has some authority, political or not.
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I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.
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Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.
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The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.
