Art Quotes
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Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.
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There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
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Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
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The art of dressing is the art we all practice.
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When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.
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Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
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Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.
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I don't like the idea of stepping-stones in art forms: that you do your time at a regional theatre, and then you work in London and go to the West End, and then you do films. I've never felt like following that trajectory.
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The man, the art, the work--it is all one.
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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.
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Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists, some transformation. And I really believe that it's generally about the same kind of transformation and the same kind of reaction. We are a little bit less individual than we would like to believe or guess we are.
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Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.
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The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
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So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!
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I love art and fashion.
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The power of art can open our minds.
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
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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.
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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
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Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.
