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Art Quotes
"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me."
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"Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."
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"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
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"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."
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"There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating."
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"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
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"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."
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"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break."
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"The perfection of art is to conceal art."
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"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
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"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
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"It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye."
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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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"In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist."
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"A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else."
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"I write the right. I do the left."
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"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."
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"Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree."
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"Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry."
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"He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life."
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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."
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"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."
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"The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure."
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"With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami."
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"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
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"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art."
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"Music is for souls & hearts to dance & sing.Art is for expressing your visionary being.Words are tools for exploring & celebrating.Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in.Waste not one jot of what you are given!Use everything you've got to maximise living."
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