Art Quotes
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Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.
Swizz Beatz
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Photographer Julian Wasser had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized.
Eve Babitz
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If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.
Piet Mondrian
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The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25.
Carol Loomis
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris
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Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.
Stephen Fry
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Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.
Paul Klee
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In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
Donald Knuth
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I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.
Ernst Fuchs
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On art: I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
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..art is made by man. His own figure is the center of all art.. .Therefore one must begin with the man himself.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon,"
And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved
From wild America to Bosphor's waters,
And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines
Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me,
And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue,
And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul,
Sitting amid their ruins.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
