Art Quotes
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.
Vladimir Putin
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The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.
Jim Harrison
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My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.
Kathryn Bigelow
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My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.
Emil Ferris
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
Nance O'Neil
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All art is theft.
David Shields
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.
William Shakespeare
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Marilyn French
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I don't feel 'possessed' or 'invaded during sessions. I don't feel that some superspirit has 'taken over' my body. Instead I feel as if I am practicing some precise psychological art, one that is ancient and poorly understood in our culture; or as if I'm learning a psychological science that helps me map the contours of consciousness itself.
Jane Roberts
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I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.
Edgardo Osorio
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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
Alvar Aalto
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Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.
Jeffrey Tambor
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Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
Yana Kudryavtseva
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For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.
Jeff Koons
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All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.
Jane Smiley
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Albrecht Durer
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Maya Lin
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I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
David Cronenberg
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
Carole King
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A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable
Daniel Johns Silverchair
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Art is no longer a purely visual experience.. ..it is a work of our intellect triggered by nature.. ..the imagination again become the queen of our strengths and we liberate our sensitivity.
Maurice Denis
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You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.
Nathan Fillion
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If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.
Martin Mull