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Art Quotes
"She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane."
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"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind."
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"Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it."
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"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream."
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"Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines."
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"Music conveys to us itself!"
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"Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm."
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"To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!"
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"Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another."
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"Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum."
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"In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest."
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"He was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in him and press up hard against it..."
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"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time."
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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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"It's not easy to define poetry."
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"And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say."
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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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"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."
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"The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama."
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"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us."
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"Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided."
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"With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed."
Art,
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"The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail."
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"When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it."
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"I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!"
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"When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words."
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"I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through."
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"To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity."
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