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Art Quotes
"Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant."
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"Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian."
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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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"The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said."
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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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"Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought."
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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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"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."
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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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"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."
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"One does not only wish to be understood when one writes, one wishes just as surely not to be understood."
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"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
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"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."
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"Education is the art of making man ethical."
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"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
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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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"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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"In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored."
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"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him."
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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
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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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"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."
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"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention."
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"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
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