Art Quotes
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When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
Seth Godin
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Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
Terence McKenna
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Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.
Sean Lennon
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
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In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
Northrop Frye
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I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
David Bowie
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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
Ezra Pound
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A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.
Shohreh Aghdashloo
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
Seth Godin
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I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.
Carrie Brownstein
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I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.
Erin McKeown
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In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.
Paul Gauguin
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The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
Seneca the Younger
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Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
Evan Harris
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Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.
Steve Erickson
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God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.
Francis Chan
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It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.
Sidney Lumet
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The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
Ray Bradbury
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
Sue Grafton
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Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies.
Steven Berkoff