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Art Quotes
"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things."
106
"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
95
"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
92
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
91
"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
90
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."
90
"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."
89
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides."
Art,
87
"And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the living winds, which flowLike waves above the living waves below.-I have sent books and music there, and allThose instruments with which high spirits callThe future from its cradle, and the pastOut of its grave, and make the present lastIn thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die,Folded within their own eternity."
85
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
82
"The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image."
79
"Education is the art of making man ethical."
76
"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
76
"I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again, forever."
76
"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."
76
"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."
73
"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."
73
"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."
72
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
71
"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."
71
"This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect."
71
"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."
70
"Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me."
70
"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."
70
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