Art Quotes
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Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
Evan Esar
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
Ansel Adams
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Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock.
Chilly Gonzales
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
Will Durant
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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.
Jimmy Carter
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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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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.
Northrop Frye
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The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
Eugene Delacroix
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As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!
Audrey Hepburn
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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.
Wole Soyinka
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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.
Ethan Hawke
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
Eric Maisel
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Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
David Bowie
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I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
David Bowie
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As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
Seth Godin
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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.
Eudora Welty
