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Art Quotes
"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
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"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."
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"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break."
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"Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement."
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"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."
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"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together."
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"I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it."
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"The perfection of art is to conceal art."
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"I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment."
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"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
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"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."
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"Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great."
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"Frame everything and some of it will become art."
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."
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"A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first."
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"I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain."
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"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."
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"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
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"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
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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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"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
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"Fucking is an art. The mere fact of introducing the cock in the cunt and moving it in and out until the ejaculation of spunk is not art. True, it is fucking, but the difference between that way of doing it and the way it should be done, is like the difference between a child's first drawing and a picture by the world's greatest painter."
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"Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination."
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"On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters."
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"Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us."
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"What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language or image. Artists and philosophers not only show us what we have felt, they present our experiences more poignantly and intelligently than we have been able; they give shape to aspects of our lives that we recognise as our own, yet could never have understood so clearly on our own. They explain our condition to us, and thereby help us to be less lonely with, and confused by it."
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"Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth."
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"I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed."
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"Let authenticity ignite your brilliance and dignify your craft."
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"Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods."
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"I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar."
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"So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement."
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"The art of art is simplicity."
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"His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible."
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"Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism."
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"Artists are those who can evade the verbose."
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