Art Quotes
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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The greatness of human actions is measured by the inspiration that it brings. Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal of beauty and obeys it: an ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of country, ideal virtues of the Gospel! These are the wellsprings of great thoughts and great actions. All reflections illuminate infinity.
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That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.
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Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.
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There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.
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Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.
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I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.
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It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism-Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete-opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
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Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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Art should be born from the materials.
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
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I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
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I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!
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Art is an investigation.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
