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Art Quotes
"Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage."
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"The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters."
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"The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any."
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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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"We are never like angels till our passion dies."
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"We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality."
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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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"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine."
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"So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy."
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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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"Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity."
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"There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."
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"Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate."
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"The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction."
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"To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama."
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"A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable."
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"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
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"We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings."
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"Follow the ideal doing, grind the beans just before brewing.Use spring water, for softened water, makes a horror.A parley perfect, between the coffee, and the milk, with some, brown sugar thick. (Poem: An apology of a coffee lunatic, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."
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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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"The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency."
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"The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user."
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"Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting."
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"Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact. The artist is not a moralist by conscious intention, but is concerned only with hearing and expressing the vision within his or her own being. But out of the symbols the artist sees and creates - as Giotto created the forms for the Renaissance - there is later hewn the ethical structure of the society."
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"To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment."
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"The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators."
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"To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays."
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