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"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
Franklin P. Jones
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
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"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."
Norman McLaren
"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."
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"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
"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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"Art is a revolt against fate."
Andre Malraux
"Art is a revolt against fate."
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"There is no must in art because art is free."
Wassily Kandinsky
"There is no must in art because art is free."
Art,
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"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind."
Philipus Paracelsus
"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind."
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"Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
Ani DiFranco
"Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
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"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice."
David Seabury
"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice."
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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."
Rene Magritte
"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."
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"It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental."
Max Weber
"It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental."
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"The real art of conducting consists in transitions."
Gustav Mahler
"The real art of conducting consists in transitions."
Art,
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"I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting."
Lasse Hallstrom
"I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting."
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"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."
Morihei Ueshiba
"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."
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"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."
Paul Cezanne
"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."
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"A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence."
Kemal Ataturk
"A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence."
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"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."
Elliott Erwitt
"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."
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"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided."
Paracelsus
"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided."
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"Art hath an enemy called Ignorance."
Ben Jonson
"Art hath an enemy called Ignorance."
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"The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists."
E. M. Forster
"The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists."
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"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."
Alberto Giacometti
"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."
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"Yoga is an art and science of living."
Indra Devi
"Yoga is an art and science of living."
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"All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer."
Robert Owen
"All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer."
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"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."
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"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."
T. S. Eliot
"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."
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"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
Robert Graves
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
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"We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards."
Christo
"We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards."
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"My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness."
Virginia Woolf
"My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness."
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"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."
Edgar Degas
"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."
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"Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy."
Grace Jones
"Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy."
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"I feel that all good art is powerful and simple."
Aulis Sallinen
"I feel that all good art is powerful and simple."
Art,
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"I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing."
Ryszard Kapuscinski
"I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing."
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"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know."
Arthur Koestler
"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know."
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"We have lost the art of sharing and caring."
Hun Sen
"We have lost the art of sharing and caring."
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"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
Marcus Aurelius
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
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"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
Kahlil Gibran
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
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"The work of art is a scream of freedom."
Christo
"The work of art is a scream of freedom."
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"In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better."
Paul Klee
"In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better."
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"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."
Rabindranath Tagore
"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."
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"I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema."
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema."
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"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."
Arne Jacobsen
"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."
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"Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times."
David Ben Gurion
"Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times."
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"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
James Humes
"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
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"Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame."
Ville Valo
"Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame."
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"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Twyla Tharp
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
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"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."
Ernest Hemingway
"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."
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"The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business."
Charlton Heston
"The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business."
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"I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant."
Oscar de la Renta
"I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant."
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"When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right."
Arne Jacobsen
"When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right."
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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."
Artur Schnabel
"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."
William Bernbach
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
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