Art Quotes
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There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do . . . there are things I watch my hand do that are almost thoughtless. I can remember the moment of learning them. It is knowledge you have in the hand.
Charles Simonds
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You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho
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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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Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have
Alonzo King
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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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All art requires courage.
Anne Wilkes Tucker
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I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.
Warren MacKenzie
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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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Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
Georges St-Pierre
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No great work of art is ever finished.
Michelangelo
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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
H. G. Wells
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
John Maynard Keynes
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Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.
William Quigley
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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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The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.
Liam Cunningham
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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 big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity that keeps a work fresh and funny. If they can see how hard you work, if they can see the beads of sweat, it's no good. I always try to make it look easy.
Edward Sorel
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I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. All that sort of stuff reminds you to stay true to the essence of what art is about.
Geoff Rickly
