Art Quotes
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For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a connection to art which is 4,000 years old.
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Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
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In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music to acting and it's receivable because when music gives a form of entertainment of art to where it's very personable, it's a passion, it's an intimate type of art to when you hear it, it's them.
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Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'
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An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
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If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
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Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
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We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
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We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.
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The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.
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Make life an art rather than art from life.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
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If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has given mankind a metrical and computatory art essential to the effective conduct of daily life, that mathematics admits of countless applications in engineering and the natural sciences, and finally that mathematics is a most excellent instrumentality for giving mental discipline... [A mathematician will add] that mathematics is the exact science, the science of exact thought or of rigorous thinking.
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Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.
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Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
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Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.
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All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end when no one can go any further. This is what it is like to be an artist – you are unsteady on the edge of life like a swan before an anxious launching of himself on the floods where he is gently caught.
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Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
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I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.
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The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.
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Interviewing is not a democratic art.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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Love-making is an art which must be studied.
