Art Quotes
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
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Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release, and for the creative it can take the form of art.
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Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
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The struggle between art and mastery is like the struggle between spontaneity and persistence. When they become one, it is indeed rare and hard won.
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I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this is a job. I think it's easier to get better at it if you don't lose your identity in it. You do whatever you can to try to understand the character. Because they're paying you feel like you should be doing something.
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
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Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
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Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.
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Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.
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God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them
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I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.
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God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.
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Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.
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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
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Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.
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Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.
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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 a mad search for individualism.
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
