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Art Quotes
"But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play."
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"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
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"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
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"Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later. For all men live by truth and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression."
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"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them."
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"What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?"
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"But where there is no art show, I would still be painting."
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"Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art."
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"Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form."
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"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
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"Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views."
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"One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer."
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"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
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"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing."
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"Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination."
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"I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally."
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"Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it."
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"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."
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"Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures."
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"The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
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"There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."
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"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."
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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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"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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"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
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"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."
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