Art Quotes
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If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.
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Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.
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Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.
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Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.
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Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.
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I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.
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The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.
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O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.
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Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.
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Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.
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Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
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I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
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We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.
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When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
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We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.
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Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.
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Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
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American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
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Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
