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Art Quotes
"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."
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"People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience."
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"But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee."
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"I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband."
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"The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas."
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"I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters."
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"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."
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"But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness."
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"If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work."
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"If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life."
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"Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that."
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"Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite."
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"Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself."
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"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."
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"Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century."
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"To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
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"There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit."
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"The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech."
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"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished."
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"Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space."
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"This music ebbs and flows, irregular, sad. It reminds me, weirdly, of watching the ocean during a bad storm, the lashing, crashing waves and the spray of sea foam against the docks; the way it takes your breath away, the power and the hugeness of it.That's exactly what happens as I listen to the music, as I come up over the final crest of hill, and the half-ruined barn and collapsing farmhouse fan out in front of me, just as the music swells, a wave about to break: The breath leaves my body all at once, and I'm struck dumb by the beauty of it. For a second it seems to me like I really am looking down at the ocean-a sea of people, writhing and dancing in the light spilling down from the barn like shadows twisting up around a flame."
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"Comedians can turn laughter into tears and back again."
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"With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady's album " and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say."
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"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved."
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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
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"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."
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