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Art Quotes
"By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile."
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"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
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"Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting."
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"We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation."
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"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
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"We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness."
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"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious."
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"Play me something that makes me feel;This soul inside me is made of steel.Brain is breathing, but heart's not beatingAnd, babe, I need you to make things real.Walk inside me without silence,Kill the past and change the tense.Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring;Take me places that make more sense."
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"That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century."
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"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"
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"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
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"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution."
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"The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality."
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"He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life."
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"The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?"
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"Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music."
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"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."
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"I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul."
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"The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money."
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"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
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"I have wondered that even in the era of colour the black and white photographs are so appealing? I feel that as per saying - in black and white -they speak the truth."
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"It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry."
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"The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings."
Art,
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"Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do."
Art,
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"So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products."
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