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Art Quotes
"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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"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."
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"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society."
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"And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art."
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"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."
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"I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction."
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"Frame everything and some of it will become art."
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"The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things."
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"The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed."
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"Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary."
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"Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself."
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"I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity."
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"Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm."
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"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."
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"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
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"Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public."
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"One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'."
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"All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation."
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"I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain."
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"Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist."
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"Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!"
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"To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
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"Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical."
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"I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it."
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"Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different."
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