Art Quotes
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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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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Evan Esar
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When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.
Sandra Cisneros
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Teach the art of living well.
Seneca the Younger
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Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.
Paul Gauguin
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First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.
Paul Klee
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A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell.
Brice Marden
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There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
Sara Sheridan
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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
Josef Albers
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Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful thing because it opens the door to a life-long experience, a life-long enjoyment.
Michael Morpurgo
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It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'
Steve Kazee