Art Quotes
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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.
Paul Muni
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Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
Napoleon Hill
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I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.
Steven Soderbergh
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Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
William Howard Taft
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The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
Gertrude Atherton
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
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Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.
Antoni Zygmund
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Management is not a science, it is an art.
Michael Eisner
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
Cesare Pavese
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The art of the possible.
Bart Ehrman
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So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design or predict. Which is great. That's what you want art to be. You want it to be alive and to actually have a life in the way it's viewed.
Steve Zissis
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The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
Michael Leunig
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The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
Carson Grant
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We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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All art requires courage.
Anne Wilkes Tucker
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
Seneca the Younger
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I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.
Seamus Heaney
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Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
Steve Jobs
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The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.
Liam Cunningham
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Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.
Eleonora Duse
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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