Art Quotes
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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The World doth not imprison thee. Thou art thyself the World, and there, Within thyself, thou hold'st thyself Thy self-imprisoned Prisoner.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.
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To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
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A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
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When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like, 'Oh, I feel like I've experienced this,' or 'I am experiencing this,' or 'I might start to experience it soon.'
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Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.
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What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.
