Art Quotes
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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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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
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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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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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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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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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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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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 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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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.
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The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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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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The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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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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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.
