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Art Quotes
"Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx."
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"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment."
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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
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"Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space."
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"A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words."
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"As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction."
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"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
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"Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing."
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"Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it."
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"What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation."
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"I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could."
Art,
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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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"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art."
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"Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started."
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"There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."
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"The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago."
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"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."
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"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master."
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"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language."
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"But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith."
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"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."
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"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema."
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"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."
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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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"Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama."
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