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Art Quotes
"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."
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"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."
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"I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband."
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"And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person."
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"The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious."
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"What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant."
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"You don't need to know the purpose as you write, but when you read over something you've written, you should be able to point to any given element-be that a line of dialogue, a descriptive phrase, a plot point-and say why it's there."
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"I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind."
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"If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little."
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"I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters."
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"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."
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"If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work."
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"She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section."
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"It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort."
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"I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality."
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"Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses."
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"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
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"It's clever but is it art?"
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"Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest."
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"All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful."
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"Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner."
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"When I use the word rebel for the artist, I do not refer to revolutionary or to such things as taking over the dean's office; that is a different matter. Artists are generally soft - spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. For they are the bearers of the human being's age - old capacity to be insurgent."
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"Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum."
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"I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it."
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"Songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with."
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"All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up."
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"One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it."
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"They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do."
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"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
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"Keep Reading.Keep Writing.Keep Pushing yourself!And never stop learning!We writerly types have to stick together mostly because everybody else thinks we're "weird"."
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"In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it."
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"Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone."
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"My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional."
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