Art Quotes
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I remember saying to myself those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative. Art is also about beauty. And if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.
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Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.
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The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
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Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.
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We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to survive - as opposed to domesticated animals that we depend on. Would it radically change things if we had more rhinos in our midst? I kind of suspect it would.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.
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To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
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Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
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I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it since I was a child. I would find it in pieces of art, music, flowers, trees. Now I've come full circle finding God in clouds, flowers, and trees.
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Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
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Teach the art of living well.
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Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.
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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
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Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.
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Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.
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The story might sound like common gossip when told by another person, but in the mouth of a storyteller, gossip was art.
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Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
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It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it round, and whose own special genius partly determine the ultimate glory of it.
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I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!
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If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
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The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
