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Art Quotes
"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
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"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature."
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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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"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."
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"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
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"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right."
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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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"And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration."
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"Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me."
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"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."
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"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."
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"The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste."
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"And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person."
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"The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious."
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"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."
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"Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years."
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"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism."
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"I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not 'Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece' but 'Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!"
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"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
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"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."
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"If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little."
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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
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"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."
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"I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly."
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"Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness."
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"Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book."
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"Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't."
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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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"Explore your own innermost thoughts to create content that will evoke deeply relatable emotions and passion in others."
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"I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what."
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"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
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"I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period."
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