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Art Quotes
"The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators."
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"What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant."
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"American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going."
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"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid."
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"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
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"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."
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"Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives."
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"Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in."
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"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."
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"I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever."
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"And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art."
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"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life."
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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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"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside."
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"I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many."
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"Photographs shape the past in our own image."
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"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."
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"You must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial."
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"A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned."
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"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
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"If you can't look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it's there-take it out or change it."
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."
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"Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies."
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"Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is to be read, and, in the largest sense, what it means. It is essential to remember that characters have a music as well, a pitch and tempo, just as real people do. To make them believable, you must always be aware of what they would or would not say, where stresses would or would not fall."
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"Many of us begin this art with little to no understanding of what we are getting ourselves into. Then, maybe a year or a black belt later, we realize this odyssey we have embarked upon and rest happily in knowing we have chosen a noble struggle.I think we owe most of our successes to our initial ignorance. When we begin, we cannot see the obstacles ahead, and so we march on optimistically. In hindsight, when we look back and connect the dots, we see just how green we were at the start, and it was only our ignorance that upheld us from the crushing despair of the task at hand."
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"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."
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"Life is art and art is life."
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"In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal."
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"I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others."
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"We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that."
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"Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys."
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"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."
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"Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize."
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"Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand."
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"Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art."
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