Art Quotes
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Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what's in life... Art wants to give back everything what's in our lives. The more comprehensive the artist stands in life the more powerful his work will speak, and therefore a work of art is a measure of the mental size of his creator.
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O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!
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Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?
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The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
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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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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.
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In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.
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I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).
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Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.
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I have this old-fashioned idea that art and commerce are at war.
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In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
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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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Don’t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
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The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.
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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 only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
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Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.
