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Art Quotes
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
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"For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression."
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"I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school."
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"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have."
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"The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago."
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"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."
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"You sit at the edge of the world,I am in a crater that's no more.Words without lettersStanding in the shadow of the door.The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard,Little fish rain from the sky.Outside the window there are soldiers,steeling themselves to die.(Refrain)Kafka sits in a chair by the shore,Thinking for the pendulum that moves the world, it seems.When your heart is closed,The shadow of the unmoving Sphinx,Becomes a knife that pierces your dreams.The drowning girl's fingersSearch for the entrance stone, and more.Lifting the hem of her azure dress,She gazes --at Kafka on the shore."
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"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master."
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"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language."
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"I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one."
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"Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint."
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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."
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"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."
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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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"I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero."
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"American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going."
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"I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not 'Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece' but 'Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!"
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"I didn't have any interest in traditional art."
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"The fact is that even art is subject to fashion."
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"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."
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"Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation."
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"Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite."
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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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"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design."
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"A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned."
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"Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art."
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"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
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"My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show."
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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."
Art,
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