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Art Quotes
"The Beautiful is always strange."
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"Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait."
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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
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"The still watersWrap my lips,Eyes, nose and ears,A clearCellophane I cannot crack."
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"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
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"I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing."
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"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."
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"Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started."
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"The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone."
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"But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile."
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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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"The art of creation is older than the art of killing."
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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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"You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all."
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"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
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"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
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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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"Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement."
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"I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art."
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"In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?"
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"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
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"The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas."
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"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."
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"One of the general patterns of good (i.e., striking and memorable) writing is the effect of repetition. If you use a certain element-a plot device, an image, a noticeable phrase-once, readers may or may not notice it consciously, but it doesn't disturb the flow of their reading. If you use that element twice, they won't notice it consciously-but they will notice it subconsciously, and it will add to the resonance of the writing or to their sense of depth and involvement (and if it's a plot device, it will heighten the dramatic tension). But if you use that element three times, everybody will notice it the third time you do it."
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"Frame everything and some of it will become art."
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"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed."
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"All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it."
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"If you can't look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it's there-take it out or change it."
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"One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table."
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"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."
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