Art Quotes
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I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from high school, I went to the Chicago Art Institute, and it was there that I thought, well, now I'm going to be a painter.
Warren MacKenzie
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There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Gertrude Atherton
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
Seth Godin
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Paul Klee
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As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some 'they' is manipulating 'us', using, among other dark arts, advertising.
George Will
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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.
Edgar Schein
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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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The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.
George Will
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Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
Georges St-Pierre
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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
Seth Godin
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
Stephen Sondheim
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If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.
Rowan Williams
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Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.
Eric Drooker
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I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.
Eudora Welty
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When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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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).
Ally Carter
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I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that.
Esha Gupta
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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
