Art Quotes
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The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
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The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
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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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Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
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An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
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Life doesn't last, art doesn't last.
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Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.
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I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.
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Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies.
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I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
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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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No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
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The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
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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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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.
