Art Quotes
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Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.
Camille
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I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, 'Oh my God!' when you get to the top before you come down. It's just the same as structuring a show or a dance.
Michael Jackson
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
John Lasseter
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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I have been fortunate enough to see many places of this earth and most certainly a lot of art, but I would be more interested to see more of the natural wonders of the world.
Floor Jansen
Nightwish
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Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Tina Weymouth
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I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ... I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.
Zoe Akins
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Even the wisest man grows tense
With some sort of violence
Before he can accomplish fate,
Know his work or choose his mate.
Poet and sculptor, do the work,
Nor let the modish painter shirk
William Butler Yeats
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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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Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity. (p. 18)
Marshall McLuhan
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How can art make a difference in the world?
Sandra Cisneros
