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Art Quotes
"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."
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"As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional."
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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
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"To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama."
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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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"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."
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"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
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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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"Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs."
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"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr."
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"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."
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"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."
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"That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation."
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"In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible."
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"Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way."
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"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom."
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"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill."
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"More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result."
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"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."
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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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"Poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence."
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"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created."
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"Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones."
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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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"I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made."
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"Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world."
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"The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past."
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