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Art Quotes
"The intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write."
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"But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play."
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"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience."
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"Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will."
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"Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise."
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"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second."
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"Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
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"We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality."
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"One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."
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"And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art."
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"You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice."
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"Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form."
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"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine."
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"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
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"The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world."
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"And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music."
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"I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school."
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"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."
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"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
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"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things."
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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless."
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"You sit at the edge of the world,I am in a crater that's no more.Words without lettersStanding in the shadow of the door.The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard,Little fish rain from the sky.Outside the window there are soldiers,steeling themselves to die.(Refrain)Kafka sits in a chair by the shore,Thinking for the pendulum that moves the world, it seems.When your heart is closed,The shadow of the unmoving Sphinx,Becomes a knife that pierces your dreams.The drowning girl's fingersSearch for the entrance stone, and more.Lifting the hem of her azure dress,She gazes --at Kafka on the shore."
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"Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal."
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"It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else."
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"Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion."
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"Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within."
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"The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user."
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"Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint."
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"The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators."
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