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Art Quotes
"Art doesn't give rise to anything in us that isn't already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be."
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"If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams."
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"Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents."
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"Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion."
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"For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you."
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"My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together."
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"We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm."
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"I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art."
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"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."
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"This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered."
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"An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
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"With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady's album " and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say."
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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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"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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"The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school. Most of the similarities end there. Max and the other kids in Maximum Ride are not the same Max and kids featured in those two books. nor do Frannie and Kit play any part in Maximum Ride. I hope you enjoy the ride anyways."
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"A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion."
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"It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity."
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"There are anonymous poems and poets without poems."
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"An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan."
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"I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist."
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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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"The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters."
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"Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx."
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"A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold, the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver."
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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."
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"Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?"
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"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."
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"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second."
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"Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts."
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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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