Art Quotes
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Ron Rosenbaum: Why are you doing what you're doing?Bob Dylan: Pause Because I don't know anything else to do. I'm good at it.Ron Rosenbaum: How would you describe 'it'?Bob Dylan: I'm an artist. I try to create art.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
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The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
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Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.
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When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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Art brings out the grand lines of nature.
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Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.
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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
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Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
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'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.
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No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game
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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
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I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.
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Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
