Art Quotes
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What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.
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The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
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I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.
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Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.
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Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.
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Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
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I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.
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I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.
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Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
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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.
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art.
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Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It’s tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. ‘How do I want to live? What do I want to do?’ Then you figured out how to make that into art.
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Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.
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There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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.
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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.
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I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
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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.
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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.
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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.
