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Art Quotes
"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
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"The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail."
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"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine."
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"Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting."
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"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"
Art,
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"I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders."
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"Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me."
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"It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on."
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"You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art."
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"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."
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"Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake."
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"The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant."
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"Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art."
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"Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me."
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"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
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"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
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"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."
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"I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities."
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"As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words."
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"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
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"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."
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"Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life."
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"The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone."
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"I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist."
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"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
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"Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space."
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