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Art Quotes
"Play me something that makes me feel;This soul inside me is made of steel.Brain is breathing, but heart's not beatingAnd, babe, I need you to make things real.Walk inside me without silence,Kill the past and change the tense.Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring;Take me places that make more sense."
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"This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers."
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"If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little."
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"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."
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"I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters."
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"A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image."
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"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
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"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."
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"The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo."
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"If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art."
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"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life."
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"She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane."
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"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind."
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"What music do you like? he asked between calls."Cheery, chirpy pop.Wincing, he pulled up a station that delivered exactly that. "You owe me."Come on-she turned in her seat to face him once more-"it's not that bad."I'm sorry? I can't hear you past the sugar blocking my eardrums."
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"I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art."
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"Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses."
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"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside."
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"There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections."
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"Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art."
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"I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know."
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"I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am."
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"Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer."
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"If you can't look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it's there-take it out or change it."
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"Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another."
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"That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues."
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"Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century."
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"I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable."
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"Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum."
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"To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it."
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"I had no more alphabetthan the journeying of the swallows,the pure and tiny waterof the small, fiery birdthat dances rising from the pollen."
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