Art Quotes
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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
Seth Godin
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
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They firmly believe it to be the sole function of art to minister to their personal comfort — as upholstery does.
Arthur Morrison
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The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
Svetlana Alexievich
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For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is someting hard to explain to those who do not know the game well. One must first learn to play it correctly in order to savor its richness.
Bent Larsen
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I believe in art that conceals art.
Rita Mae Brown
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Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.
Spider Robinson
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Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound
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All I owe the world is my art.
Sherman Alexie
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Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.
Paul Klee
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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.
David Bowie
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The purpose of art is delectation.
Nicolas Poussin
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Art without heart is craft.
Eric Gibbons
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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.
William James
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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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Management is not a science, it is an art.
Michael Eisner
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
Eugenio Montale
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Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
Stewart Brand
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All art requires courage.
Anne Wilkes Tucker
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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.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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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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Martial arts is like dance. It's so beautiful and what I love about the martial arts mostly is that what it basically says is you take their energy and you redirect it. Then if you need to, use it on them. That whole thing about redirecting energy I love.
Rutger Hauer
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I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
Lukas Foss
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I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.
Brett Dennen