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Art Quotes
"The art of interpretation is not to play what is written."
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"He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe."
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"In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it."
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"This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art."
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"When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us."
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"When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules."
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"How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?""Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs to go rub his soul against life. ..."
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"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within."
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"Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage."
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"For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write."
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"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."
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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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"The more you create great music, the more it makes you eager to create more and more."
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"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."
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"Writing isn't something you do because you feel like it. You never feel like it. You write because there's a rat in your brain chewing up the spirals of your DNA and you want to get the words down before they disappear."
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"It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something."
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"Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views."
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"The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt."
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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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"Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake."
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"Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it."
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"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."
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"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."
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"Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate."
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"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects."
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"I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist."
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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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"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
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"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
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"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
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