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Art Quotes
"Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life."
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"Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't."
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"For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression."
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"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul."
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"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
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"Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator."
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"A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable."
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"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."
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"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."
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"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature."
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"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."
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"I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one."
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"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."
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"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't."
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"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."
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"If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks."
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"Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone."
Art,
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"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."
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"And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration."
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"Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely."
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"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship."
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"Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting."
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"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect."
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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
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"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
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