Art Quotes
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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
Seth Godin
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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
George Bernard Shaw
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
James Thurber
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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.
Wolfgang Laib
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
Rudyard Kipling
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
Seth Godin
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Management is not a science, it is an art.
Michael Eisner
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When I did The Umbrella Academy, I studied Gabriel Bá's art. I said, "Oh, this is what he likes to do here. Maybe I can push him to do a little more of this." You can play to those strengths. It's a different scenario with each artist.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
Stephen Sprouse
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
William Shakespeare
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Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.
Wim Wenders
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I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
Terence McKenna
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Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
John Ruskin
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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
Ezra Pound
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Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability
Shinichi Suzuki
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
Ezra Pound
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I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
Will Self
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Teach the art of living well.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Northrop Frye
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Art without heart is craft.
Eric Gibbons
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Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
Paul Gauguin
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
Bette Davis