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Art Quotes
"There are anonymous poems and poets without poems."
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"Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery... It is mystery I love and pursue."
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"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."
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"Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art."
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"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question."
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"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."
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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
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"But where there is no art show, I would still be painting."
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"Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form."
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"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."
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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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"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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"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
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"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me."
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"If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art."
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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
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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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"Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression."
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"They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought."
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"To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment."
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"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
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"People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were."
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"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."
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"The fact is that even art is subject to fashion."
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