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Art Quotes
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
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"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
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"Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama."
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"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
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"Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry."
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"Democracy is the art of thinking independently together."
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"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
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"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
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"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
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"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."
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"I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form."
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"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
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"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."
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"But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary."
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"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."
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"Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music."
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"With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami."
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"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down."
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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
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"You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice."
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"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
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"If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world."
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"When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words."
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"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."
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"I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary."
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"The art of creation is older than the art of killing."
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"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
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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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"It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song."
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"Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form."
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