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Art Quotes
"Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me."
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"Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination."
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"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."
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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."
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"You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut."
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"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."
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"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."
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"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
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"Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity."
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"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology."
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"They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness."
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"I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories."
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"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
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"I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one."
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"Follow the ideal doing, grind the beans just before brewing.Use spring water, for softened water, makes a horror.A parley perfect, between the coffee, and the milk, with some, brown sugar thick. (Poem: An apology of a coffee lunatic, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."
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"There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art."
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"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
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"All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form."
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"I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity."
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"Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have."
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"Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world."
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"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
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"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
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"Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different."
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"When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of human."
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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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