Art Quotes
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
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Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.
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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I love how art brings people from all different walks of life together in that way.
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Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world
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Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.
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Dark art honors suffering
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Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
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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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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
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I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.
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The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
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Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
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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.
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I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.
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It makes me really proud to be able to use my art to spread positive messages around the world.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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The relationship between government and art must necessarily be a delicate one. It would not be appropriate for the government to try to define what is good or what is true or what is beautiful. But government can provide nourishment to the ground within which these ideas spring forth from the seeds of inspiration within the human mind.
