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Art Quotes
"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
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"All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art."
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"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."
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"As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things."
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"Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories."
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"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
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"When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it."
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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
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"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."
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"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
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"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
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"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."
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"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."
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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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"When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons."
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"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
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"Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life."
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"Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them."
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"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."
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"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
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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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