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"Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you."

"Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you."

Harry Shearer, American Actor

Art, Comedy, State, Washington

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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."

"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."

Aberjhani, American Historian

Art, Creativity, Metaphor, Inspirational

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"Managing bottom-up change is its own art."

"Managing bottom-up change is its own art."

Kevin Kelly, American Editor

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"Painters must speak through paint, not through words."

"Painters must speak through paint, not through words."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

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"Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art."

"Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art."

Ishmael Reed, American Poet

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"All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation."

"All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation."

Susan Sontag, American Author

Art, Aesthetics, Culture, Judgment

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"Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular."

"Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Art, Beauty, Perfection, Creativity

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"Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life."

"Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life."

Christopher Knight, American Actor

Art, Life, Positive, Content

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"90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on."

"90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on."

Patton Oswalt, American Comedian

Art, Music, Dance, Focus

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"We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it."

"We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it."

Alice Cooper, American Musician

Art, Idea, Light

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"Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye."

"Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye."

Dorothy Parker, American Poet

Art, Creativity, Discipline, Expression, Vision

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"Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art."

"Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art."

George Henry Lewes, English Philosopher

Art, Truth, Knowledge, Books

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"I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense."

"I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense."

Tina Weymouth, American Musician

Art, Money, Respect, Running

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"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

Edward Steichen, American Photographer

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"Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art."

"Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art."

Peter Max, American Artist

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"Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself."

"Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself."

Sonny Perdue, American Politician

Art, Desire, Facts, Students

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"It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form."

"It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form."

Paul Conrad, American Cartoonist

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"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."

Carl Rogers, American Psychologist

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"I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative."

"I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative."

Lisa Marie Presley, American Musician

Art, Anger, Negative, Positive

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"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."

Paul Gauguin, French Artist

Art, History, Concern

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"It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly."

"It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly."

Michael Musto, American Writer

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"Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art ."

"Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art ."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

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"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced."

"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

Art, Time, Spirit

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"Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus."

"Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus."

Sol LeWitt, American Artist

Art, Idea, Years

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"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."

"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Art, Food, Entertainment, Media

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"As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish."

"As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish."

Charlie Haden, American Musician

Art, Jazz, Musicians, Passion

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"In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak."

"In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak."

Tom Robbins, American Author

Art, Life, Solace, Escape

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"A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence."

"A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

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"My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway."

"My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway."

Lee Krasner, American Artist

Art, University

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"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population."

"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population."

Pat Oliphant, Australian Cartoonist

Art, Population, Tradition

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"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."

"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."

Freddie Hubbard, American Musician

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"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."

"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."

Fay Godwin, British Photographer

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"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."

"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."

Mike Figgis, English Director

Art, Performance, Film, Theatre

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"If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks."

"If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks."

Leo Burnett, American Businessman

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"We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't."

"We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't."

John Hench, American Artist

Art, Cities, Colors, Feeling

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"Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross."

"Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross."

Stephen Stills, American Musician

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"At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall."

"At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall."

Peter Maxwell Davies, English Composer

Art, Education, Music

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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."

"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."

Rebecca West, Irish Author

Art, Intelligence, Mob, Reason

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"I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private."

"I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private."

Amy Tan, American Novelist

Art, First, Writing

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"I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do."

"I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do."

Sol LeWitt, American Artist

Art, Time, Artists, Want

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"I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do."

"I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do."

Giorgio Moroder, Italian Producer

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"That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe."

"That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe."

Val Kilmer, American Actor

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"To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays."

"To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

Art, Creation, Self, Expression

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"The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art."

"The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art."

LaToya Jackson, American Musician

Art, End, Future, Now

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"There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form."

"There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form."

Anatole Broyard, American Critic

Art, People, Play

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"I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things."

"I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things."

Jonny Greenwood, English Musician

Art, Life, Music

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"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame."

"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame."

Edward Young, English Poet

Art, Fame, Law, Murder

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"I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years."

"I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Art, History, Mother, Appreciation

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"The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country."

"The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country."

Ad Reinhardt, American Artist

Art, Country, Job, Now

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"Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feelingin a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and therefore arouses in us some reverberation of that primordial delight which woman gives to man, or man to woman."

"Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feelingin a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and therefore arouses in us some reverberation of that primordial delight which woman gives to man, or man to woman."

Will Durant, American Historian

Art, Beauty, Emotion, Expression

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