Art Quotes
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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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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.
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Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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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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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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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
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As a painting teacher I'm not flirting, playing around. I'm serious about it.. .If you don't want to be serious about playing at art, do something of no account. Go into banking. Buy collar buttons at five cents a dozen and sell them for five cents a piece.
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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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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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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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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
