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"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Art, Money, Artist, Building

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"I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories."

"I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

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"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature."

"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature."

David Amram, American Composer

Art, Music, People, Literature

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"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."

"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."

Lewis Mumford, American Sociologist

Art, Opportunity, Denial, Machine

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"The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting."

"The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting."

Alfred Sisley, British Artist

Art, Animation, Painting, Problems

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"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

George Jean Nathan, American Editor

Art, Imagination, Sex, Morals

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"Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice."

"Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice."

James Cash Penney, American Businessman

Art, Perfection, Practice, Study

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"The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art."

"The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art."

Paul Klee, Swiss Artist

Art, Science, Concern, State

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"I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form."

"I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form."

Patton Oswalt, American Comedian

Art, Time, Beginning

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"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."

"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

Art, Soul, Emotion, Expression

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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."

"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."

Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian

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"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't."

"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't."

Brad Holland, American Artist

Art, Cliches, Propaganda

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"Of course, in the art class, I was the model."

"Of course, in the art class, I was the model."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

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"You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour."

"You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour."

Arlo Guthrie, American Musician

Art, People, Being, Culture

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"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."

"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."

Beck, American Musician

Art, Nature, Mother, Attitude

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"The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself."

"The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself."

Andre Malraux, French Author

Art, Artist, Discovery, Order, Painting

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"Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross."

"Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross."

Stephen Stills, American Musician

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"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right."

"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right."

Maxwell Anderson, American Playwright

Art, Heart, May, Practice

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"The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency."

"The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency."

Learned Hand, American Judge

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"Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."

"Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."

Stephen Sprouse, American Designer

Art, Fashion, Favorite

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"Art is science made clear."

"Art is science made clear."

Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

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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."

"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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"Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it."

"Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it."

Omar Epps, American Actor

Art, Results, Will, Worry

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"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema."

"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

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"They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought."

"They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Art, Mother, Artists

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"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

Art, God, Painting

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"Trash has given us an appetite for art."

"Trash has given us an appetite for art."

Pauline Kael, American Critic

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"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time."

"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time."

Camille Pissarro, French Artist

Art, Time, Error

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"Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities."

"Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities."

Peter Sotos, American Writer

Art, Being, Possibilities

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"The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious."

"The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious."

Giorgio Moroder, Italian Producer

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"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious."

"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious."

Nicholas Mosley, British Novelist

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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Art, Truth, Lie

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"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found."

"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found."

Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

Art, Life, Self

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"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."

"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."

Richard Foreman, American Playwright

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"Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have."

"Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have."

Sean O'Casey, Irish Playwright

Art, Dance, Angels, Devotion

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"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."

"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."

Edward Steichen, American Photographer

Art, Work, Experience, Thought

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"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."

"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poet

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"It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble."

"It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble."

Joseph Jarman, American Musician

Art, Time, Decision

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"The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey."

"The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey."

Sydney J. Harris, American Journalist

Art, Impulses, Living

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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

13

"So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that."

"So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that."

Josh Silver, American Musician

Art, Life, People, Killing

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"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

Laurence J. Peter, Canadian Writer

Art, Originality

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"I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means."

"I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means."

Marilyn Manson, American Musician

Art, God, People, Spiritual

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"The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field."

"The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field."

Toru Takemitsu, Japanese Composer

Art, History, Music, Musicians

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"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."

"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."

Camillo di Cavour, Italian Statesman

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"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."

"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

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"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

Otto Von Bismarck, German Leader

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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."

"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."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Art, Religion, Education, Bible

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"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."

Roy Lichtenstein, American Artist

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"Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in."

"Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in."

Frederick Sanger, English Scientist

Art, Life, Science, Improvement

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