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Art Quotes
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
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"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."
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"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
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"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."
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"Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies."
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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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"Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs."
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"There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life."
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"Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from."
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"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses."
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"Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters."
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"But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude."
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"A photograph may speak to the photographer's envy or disappointment just as much as it may reveal his anger or disapproval. And even if a photograph records a joyous occasion, behind it there may still be more than a small measure of heartbreak on the part of the photographer. A small measure of heartbreak? One might think such a thing is impossible--if your heart is broken, then surely it is broken completely. Yet the truth is that we can live with a minor fault-line in the heart--most of us do, in one way or another."
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"I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know."
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"The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort."
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"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."
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"I am looking at him, I am witnessing a unique physiological phenomenon: John Shade perceiving and transforming the world, taking it in and taking it apart, re-combining its elements in the very process of storing them up so as to produce at some unspecified date an organic miracle, a fusion of image and music, a line of verse."
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"I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost."
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"One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself."
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"Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art."
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"Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark."
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"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."
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"The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw."
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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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"All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline."
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"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken."
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