Art Quotes
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
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Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful
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One to destroy, is murder by the law;And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;To murder thousands takes a specious name,War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
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I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.
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Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
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There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
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Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
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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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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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Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.
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Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
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Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
