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Art Quotes
"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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"Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone."
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"I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it."
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"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."
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"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society."
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"Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form."
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"I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art."
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"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination."
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"Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability."
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"I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain."
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"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past."
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"Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form."
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"ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough-see point one."
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"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust."
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"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
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"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."
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"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
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"Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted."
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