Art Quotes
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You don't make art, you find it.
Pablo Picasso
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It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.
Claudio Magris
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Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman McLaren
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal
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The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
Steven Levy
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What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.
Naum Gabo
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They firmly believe it to be the sole function of art to minister to their personal comfort — as upholstery does.
Arthur Morrison
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The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination. L Doing figurative work or taking pictures, and looking at how light actually reflects and refracts on bodies, or how your perception of something changes based on distance. But I think the getting of the ideas, and having that space to just have the ideas, is otherworldly, and requires a clear mind.
Chitra Ganesh
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Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute of Chicago but the Field Museum of Natural History, the Oriental Museum on the south side.
Warren MacKenzie
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What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.
Andy Couturier
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My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.
Eli Siegel
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
Andre Malraux
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I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.
Roz Chast
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The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.
Haris Pasovic
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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.
Andrew Lam
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I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.
Audrey Flack
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Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!
William T. Wiley
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I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.
Burton Silverman
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
William Shakespeare
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I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.
Seamus Dever