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Art Quotes
"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
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"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive."
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"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
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"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."
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"One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."
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"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
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"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
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"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."
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"Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me."
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"I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know."
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"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it."
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
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"Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form."
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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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"I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart."
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"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
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"A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object."
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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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"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence."
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"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
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"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
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