Art Quotes
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It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
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With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't they all the same; I think that has to do with this genetic endowment that all of us have.
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Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.
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I remember saying to myself those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative. Art is also about beauty. And if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.
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I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.
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Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.
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Art never lies, I believe.
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist...
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The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.
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Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.
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Art is not about something, Art is something
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I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.
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Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.
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I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
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Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources.
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I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.
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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
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Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.
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Since it is visual art, you know, you’re drawing from everything. But I tend to draw from what I read not from a visual thing. Most of my stuff comes from historical things that I read that are kind of obscure and that people don’t know much about, like the formation of the Christian church, stuff like that.
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The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.
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Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
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Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
