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Art Quotes
"In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal."
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"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art."
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"Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints."
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"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved."
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"I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art."
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"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
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"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."
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"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."
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"I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life."
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"The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness."
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"When a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it wasthis very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art."
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"If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate."
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"How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?""Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs to go rub his soul against life. ..."
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"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within."
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"After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?"
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"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."
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"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."
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"But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood."
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"Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about."
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"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative."
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"Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views."
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"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art."
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"The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world."
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"Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life."
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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."
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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."
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"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
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"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."
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"People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw."
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