Art Quotes
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
Steve Martin
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal
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The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
Svetlana Alexievich
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If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.
Rowan Williams
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Everywhere I've been, from South Africa to Brazil, people are connected to it. For me, art is a way to bring people together. You can put people on the same level, the perception is the same. You can bring a worker, like a cleaning guy, or the richest guy on earth, and they will have the same feeling or they would be able to feel the same.
eL Seed
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To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
Thomas Carlyle
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
Vladimir Lenin
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You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.
William Goldman
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Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.
Eliel Saarinen
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
Ansel Adams
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.
Joshua Foer
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I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.
Hedda Sterne
