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Art Quotes
"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
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"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
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"Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later. For all men live by truth and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression."
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"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them."
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
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"The most complicated skill is to be simple."
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"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
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"We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming."
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
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"I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration."
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"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art."
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"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
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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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"The art of creation is older than the art of killing."
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"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other."
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"No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?"
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"Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings."
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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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"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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"Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again."
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"Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow."
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"I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music."
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