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"If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team."

"If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team."

Anthony Anderson, American Actor

Art, Talent, Respect

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"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit."

"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Art, Science, Genius, Will

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"ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough-see point one."

"ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough-see point one."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Art, Nature, Truth, Reflection

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"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism."

"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism."

Tristan Tzara, French Artist

Art, Work, Journalism

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"We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books."

"We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books."

Glenn Danzig, American Musician

Art, Books, Pretty, Sales

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"My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it."

"My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it."

Giacomo Casanova, Italian Celebrity

Art, Men, Errors, Thinking

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"Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity."

"Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity."

Modest Mussorgsky, Russian Composer

Art, End, Humanity

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"Music is the universal language, because it is the language of the universe."

"Music is the universal language, because it is the language of the universe."

Charles F. Glassman, American Author

Art, Music, Universal, Language, Sound

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"One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself."

"One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself."

Robert Mapplethorpe, American Photographer

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"Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me."

"Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me."

Ed Harris, American Actor

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"Starlight beats when heart twinklesYouthful sky beyond cloudy wrinklesMuse of glory to flame the nightVerse inscribed as written light."

"Starlight beats when heart twinklesYouthful sky beyond cloudy wrinklesMuse of glory to flame the nightVerse inscribed as written light."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Art, Poetry, Youth, Light, Inspirational

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"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be."

"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be."

Larry Wall, Canadian Author

Art, Work, Artist

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"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."

"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise."

"You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise."

Mike Davidson, American Designer

Art, Time, Being, Compromise

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"As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making."

"As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

Art, Movies, Work, Hollywood

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"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Art, Artist, Danger

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"Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that."

"Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that."

Kurtis Blow, American Musician

Art, Music, Numbers

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"In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it."

"In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it."

Georg Cantor, German Mathematician

Art, Mathematics, Question, Value

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"In art the best is good enough."

"In art the best is good enough."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies."

"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

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"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."

"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."

Richard Foreman, American Playwright

Art, Care, Now, Want

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"We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

"We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

Henry James, American Writer

Art, Work, Doubt, Madness

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"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."

Edgar A. Shoaff, American Cartoonist

Art, Advertising, Lies

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"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."

"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."

Saul Steinberg, American Artist

Art, Artists, Future, Understanding

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"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."

"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poet

Art, Consciousness, Man, Production

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"How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?""Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs to go rub his soul against life. ..."

"How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?""Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs to go rub his soul against life. ..."

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

Art, Life, Experience, Emotion

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"But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a."

"But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a."

John Galliano, British Designer

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"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

George Eliot, British Author

Art, Poetry, Knowledge, Purity

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"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."

"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."

Billy Sunday, American Clergyman

Art, Mother, Nothing, Songs

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"The more you create great music, the more it makes you eager to create more and more."

"The more you create great music, the more it makes you eager to create more and more."

Sami Abouzid, Egyptian Writer

Art, Creativity, Inspirational, Motivational, Passion

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"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment."

"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment."

Beverly Sills, American Musician

Art, Environmental, Thought, Perception

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"Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will."

"Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Art, Creativity, Rules, Will, Freedom

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"Painters must speak through paint, not through words."

"Painters must speak through paint, not through words."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

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"Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal."

"Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Art, Poet, Prose, Struggle, Freedom

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"I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it."

"I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it."

Roy Lichtenstein, American Artist

Art, People, Purpose, May

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"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."

"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Quality, Admiration

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"Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work."

"Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work."

Chuck Close, American Artist

Art, Work, Decision

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"We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality."

"We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality."

Gavin Newsom, American Politician

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"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."

"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."

Henry Moore, English Sculptor

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"And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art."

"And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art."

Alan Lomax, American Writer

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"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."

"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."

Mikhail Baryshnikov, American Dancer

Art, Government, Education, People

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"As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien."

"As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien."

Gavin Bryars, English Composer

Art, Music, Time, Idea

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"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."

"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."

Camille Pissarro, French Artist

Art, Time, Value, Waste

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"The great artist is a slave to his ideals."

"The great artist is a slave to his ideals."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

Art, Artist, Ideals

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"Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end."

"Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end."

George A. Moore, Irish Novelist

Art, Beginning, End

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"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."

"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

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"Art for art's sake, money for God's sake."

"Art for art's sake, money for God's sake."

Simon Raven, English Novelist

Art, Money, God

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"Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do."

"Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do."

Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist

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"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."

"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."

Philip James Bailey, English Poet

Art, First, Simplicity

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"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."

"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."

Rebecca West, Irish Author

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