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Art Quotes
"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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"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."
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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."
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"The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it."
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"Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved."
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"There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he has been given, has to write at his own intellectual level. For him to do anything else is to bury his talents. This doesn't mean that, within his limitations, he shouldn't try to reach as many people as possible, but it does mean that he must not lower his standards to do so."
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"She's gotoceanstucked awayin her hairpoems swimunder her skin."
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"It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something."
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"I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what."
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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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"There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing."
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"A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else."
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"One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author."
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"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down."
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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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"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures."
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"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."
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"But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art."
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"All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality."
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"I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me."
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"Life is art and art is life."
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"It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes."
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"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art."
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