Art Quotes
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An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
Carol Bly
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The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a lot of art that puts that in bold letters. It's psychologically very interesting and acute, I think. That's not the central reading, I think, of the New Testament.
Cass Sunstein
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The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
Eudora Welty
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Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
David Shields
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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.
Stephen Sondheim
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As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.
Wayne White
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From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.
Sebastian Faulks
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Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.
William Webb
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Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
Sarah Churchwell
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Arthur Erickson
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Árt is dead. Long live Tatlin's new machine art.
George Grosz
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What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
Robert Rodriguez Chingon
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The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.
Erwin Panofsky
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
Ansel Adams
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To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
Eudora Welty
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Technology adds nothing to art.
Penn Jillette
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Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
Calvin Seerveld
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I love art and fashion.
Mena Suvari
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
Virginia Woolf
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You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.
Liz Phair
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
Albert Camus
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The power of art can open our minds.
Edmund Capon
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The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.
Anton Ehrenzweig