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Art Quotes
"An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination."
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"With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed."
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"I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all."
Art,
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"So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products."
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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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"Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art."
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"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight."
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"Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'."
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"Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself."
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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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"You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut."
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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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"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
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"We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about."
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"It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form."
Art,
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"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
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"Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike."
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"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art."
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"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."
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"We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming."
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"By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile."
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"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."
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"From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections."
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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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"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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"It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly."
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"Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate."
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"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."
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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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"So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture."
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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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