Art Quotes
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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
Seth Godin
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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.
Bram van Velde
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There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.
Paul Klee
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Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.
Frederic Chopin
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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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To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.
Witold Gombrowicz
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound
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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 principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
Jerzy Kosinski
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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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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
Ray Bradbury
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Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
Eli Siegel
