Art Quotes
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For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion that you feel in your heart or your stomach, but also that challenges the brain at the same time. It's an experience - physical and intellectual.
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Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
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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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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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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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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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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
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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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The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
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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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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them. And that's one of the reasons why I intend on being a director, because I want to actually tell some of these stories. I also think that we place such intense emphasis on award shows when they're not necessarily the best reflection of how good the work is. We need to realize that art and creation are so much bigger than an award or any measure of accomplishment.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
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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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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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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality . . . creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
