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Art Quotes
"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust."
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"No one cares about the artist Kafka, who troubles us with his puzzling aesthetic, because we'd rather have Kafka as the fusion of experience and work, the Kafka who had a difficult relationship with his father and didn't know how to deal with women."
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"A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the eroticfeelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance."
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"In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul."
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"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."
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"Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you."
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"Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller."
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"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
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"The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else."
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"Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the window, and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes representing any scene that happened momentarily to shape itself in the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of imagination: a glimpse of sea between two rock; the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disc; a group of reeds and water-flags, and a naiad's head, crowned with lotus-flowers, rising out of them; an elf sitting in a hedge-sparrow's nest, under a wreath of hawthorn bloom."
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"The still watersWrap my lips,Eyes, nose and ears,A clearCellophane I cannot crack."
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"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion."
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"I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour."
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"The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings."
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"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
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"I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them."
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"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."
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"Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures."
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"The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us."
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"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
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"If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world."
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"Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted."
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"Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant."
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"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."
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"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter."
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