Art Quotes
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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.
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The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
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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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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.
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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.
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To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.
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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.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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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.
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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.
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.
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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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Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
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Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock.
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Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.
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Art is a personal act of courage.
