Art Quotes
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
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There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.
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In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
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I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
