Art Quotes
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What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
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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.
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Art without heart is craft.
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You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
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Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
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Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?
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...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
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I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.
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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
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The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.
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But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.
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Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
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Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
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Music is reflection of self.
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Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
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Give me the benefit of your assistance during those ablutions that neccessarily, though unfortunatly, invariably follow the excercise of the culinary art.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.
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Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.
