Art Quotes
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Life is short and art is long.
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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Our main inspiration with Alix MacKenzie, I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were selected not for art content but for their relationship to the anthropological history of mankind.
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We have to remind people how important arts are. People just don't see it.
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God made thee good as thou art beautiful.
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The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
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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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History is as much an art as a science.
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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 image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.
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Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
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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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Humble Inquiry is the skill and the art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not already know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person.
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I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the experiences themselves - might become material for art. This kind of transformation shows up a lot in 10:04 because the book tracks the transposition of fact into fiction in the New Yorker stor.
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A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
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Worthiness, in very simple terms, means I have found a way to let the Energy reach me, the Energy that is natural, reach me. Worthiness, or unworthiness, is something that is pronounced upon you by you. You are the only one that can deem yourself worthy or unworthy. You are the only one who can love yourself into a state of allowing, or hate yourself in a state of disallowing. There is not something wrong with you, nor is there something wrong with one who is not loving you. You are all just, in the moment, practicing the art of not allowing, or the art of resisting
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Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.
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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
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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.
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Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.
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I'm not trying to do conceptual art.
