Art Quotes
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Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.
Esha Gupta
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I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry
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But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!
John Milton
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I love how art brings people from all different walks of life together in that way.
Grace Weber
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I have this old-fashioned idea that art and commerce are at war.
Brian Morton
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.
George Bernard Shaw
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
David Bowie
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History is as much an art as a science.
Ernest Renan
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
Moliere
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I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
Etgar Keret
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O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
Thomas Carlyle
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
Terence McKenna
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One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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I view art as an inspirational tool.
Thomas Kinkade
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The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.
Haris Pasovic
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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.
Paul Klee
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The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.
Wendy Wasserstein
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Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.
Alvin Curran
