Art Quotes
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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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To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
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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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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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Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful
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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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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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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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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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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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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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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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Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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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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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.
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
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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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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.
