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Art Quotes
"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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"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness."
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"It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song."
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"Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise."
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"I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school."
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"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows."
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"A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the eroticfeelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance."
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"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts."
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"When you dance, your whole body dances, your skin and bones, your soul, The tips of your fingers and the roots of your hair. When you stop dancing you stop living."
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"Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait."
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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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"I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking."
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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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"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."
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"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."
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"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."
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"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
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"I am an artist first and a photographer second."
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"So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point."
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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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"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art."
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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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"But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude."
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"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some."
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