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Art Quotes
"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 feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people."
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"Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols."
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"I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many."
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"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."
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"The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well."
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"I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable."
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"When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't."
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"Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!"
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"I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training."
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"My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together."
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"He was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in him and press up hard against it..."
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"Music is often the spark that lights the fire of the soul."
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"This music ebbs and flows, irregular, sad. It reminds me, weirdly, of watching the ocean during a bad storm, the lashing, crashing waves and the spray of sea foam against the docks; the way it takes your breath away, the power and the hugeness of it.That's exactly what happens as I listen to the music, as I come up over the final crest of hill, and the half-ruined barn and collapsing farmhouse fan out in front of me, just as the music swells, a wave about to break: The breath leaves my body all at once, and I'm struck dumb by the beauty of it. For a second it seems to me like I really am looking down at the ocean-a sea of people, writhing and dancing in the light spilling down from the barn like shadows twisting up around a flame."
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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
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"The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor."
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"Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting."
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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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"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."
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"Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it."
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"I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good."
Art,
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"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."
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"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
Art,
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"I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities."
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"I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through."
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"Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art ."
Art,
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"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects."
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"I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist."
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