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Art Quotes
"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
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"One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer."
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"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
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"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."
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"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead."
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"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
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"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
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"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
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"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides."
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"Education is the art of making man ethical."
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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
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"I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again, forever."
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"I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form."
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"Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does."
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"Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought."
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"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
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"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
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"I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart."
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"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that."
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"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates."
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"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."
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"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
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"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
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"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising."
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"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
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