Art Quotes
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The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
Svetlana Alexievich
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Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.
Paul Gauguin
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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Drawing is the honesty of the art.
Salvador Dali
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Evan Esar
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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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Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
David Bowie
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Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.
Marcel Proust
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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
George Bernard Shaw
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Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
David Bowie
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Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.
Haris Pasovic
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To live
On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all
Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;
This is to be a trickster; and to filch
Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,
Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend,
You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me,
Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,
Plain folks call "Theft.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
