Art Quotes
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True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
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We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words
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I'm an excuse for medical experiments and art theory. You must get me out of here and out of the hospital.
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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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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
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One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
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Art is activism.
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We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.
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When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.
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Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
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As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.
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Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
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In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
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For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.
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So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
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I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.
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Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.
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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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Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
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Mimesis, it seems, works smoothly in only one direction, and life refuses conveniently to mirror the art in which it's seemingly mirrored.
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
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Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
