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Art Quotes
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
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"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."
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"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."
63
"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice."
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"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."
59
"There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within."
57
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
54
"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead."
50
"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."
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"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
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"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know."
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"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."
43
"I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing."
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"Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame."
38
"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
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"I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant."
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"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides."
Art,
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"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
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"Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant."
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"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
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"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates."
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"The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said."
Art,
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