Art Quotes
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Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces.
Realism was the death of art.
Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.
Arthur Wesley Dow
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That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
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My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.
Ed Askew
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Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.
Campbell McGrath
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Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
JR artist
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For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is someting hard to explain to those who do not know the game well. One must first learn to play it correctly in order to savor its richness.
Bent Larsen
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Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.
John Hickenlooper
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Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
Homer
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I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.
Roz Chast
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What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*
William Shakespeare
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The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.
William Hazlitt
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We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.
Ezra Miller
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I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
Steve Martin
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This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
William Ernest Henley
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A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it.
Budd Hopkins
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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
Henry Louis Gates
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Art serves to establish community. It links us with others and with the things around us, in a shared vision and effort.
Gerhard Richter
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Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.
Francis Chan
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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
