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Art Quotes
"Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way."
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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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"I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd."
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"Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation."
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"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."
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"Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols."
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"Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite."
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"All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it."
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"Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines."
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"The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever."
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"A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two."
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"I am permanentlytannedin the summer of poetry."
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"It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me."
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"In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist."
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."
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"When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation."
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"I write the right. I do the left."
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"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work."
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"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."
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"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."
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"Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man."
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"A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with."
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"Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination."
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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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"The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past."
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"In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color."
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