Art Quotes
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism...
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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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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The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
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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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Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
