Art Quotes
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With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.
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That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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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.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.
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The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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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.
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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.
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We have to remind people how important arts are. People just don't see it.
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Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
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Actors have no color. That's the art form.
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Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.
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History is as much an art as a science.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.
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Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.
