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Art Quotes
"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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"I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair, and stars in her soul."
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"All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful."
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"All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation."
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"Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!"
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"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down."
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"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."
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"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."
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"This world has need of song and sword."
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"It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes."
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"I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design."
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"Democracy is the art of thinking independently together."
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"I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost."
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"Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought."
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"My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them."
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"Starlight beats when heart twinklesYouthful sky beyond cloudy wrinklesMuse of glory to flame the nightVerse inscribed as written light."
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"I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art."
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"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
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"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."
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"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art."
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"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."
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"The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness."
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"While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep."
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"The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin."
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"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is."
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"Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star."
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"My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why."
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"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."
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"Actors are the only honest hypocrites."
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"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own."
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"So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy."
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"Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting."
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