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Art Quotes
"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."
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"Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator."
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"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
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"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."
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"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be."
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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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"But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee."
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"Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities."
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"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."
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"People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were."
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"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
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"I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls."
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"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."
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"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
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"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill."
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"More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result."
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"I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music."
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"The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things."
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"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
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"Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary."
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"I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity."
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"There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections."
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"Poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence."
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"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."
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"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
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"I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made."
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"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished."
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"Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick."
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"What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language or image. Artists and philosophers not only show us what we have felt, they present our experiences more poignantly and intelligently than we have been able; they give shape to aspects of our lives that we recognise as our own, yet could never have understood so clearly on our own. They explain our condition to us, and thereby help us to be less lonely with, and confused by it."
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"There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection."
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"This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered."
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"Let authenticity ignite your brilliance and dignify your craft."
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"I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar."
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