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Art Quotes
"Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity."
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"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
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"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that."
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"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."
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"Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought."
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"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising."
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"The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey."
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"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
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"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."
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"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom."
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"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."
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"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
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"Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely."
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"The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative."
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"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
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"All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy."
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"In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul."
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"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
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"What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?"
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"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."
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"Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't."
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"It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level."
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"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."
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"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
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"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention."
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