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Art Quotes
"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
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"The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed."
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"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
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"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
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"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
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"There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time."
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"At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time."
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"The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film."
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"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
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"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects."
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"For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression."
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"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
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"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have."
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"A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable."
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"The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago."
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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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"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master."
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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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"For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally."
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"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."
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