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Art Quotes


"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."


"Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement."


"For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series."



"Make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came."


"In taking Nur's art into his hands, did he have to gather up the stained, soiled, discoloured and odorous rags of his life as well?"


"The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant."


"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."



"People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical."


"Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is."


"I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire."


"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."


"Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world."


"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."


"I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed."


"Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives."


"Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art."


"The key to high concept is that fresh twist. Make it a big one. Wow your reader. Force her to gasp when she comes to that part in your story."


"Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information."


"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom."


"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."


"It is from the womb of art that criticism was born."


"I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music."



"Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it."


"Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow."


"I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce."


"I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased."


"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."


"I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?"


"Explore your own innermost thoughts to create content that will evoke deeply relatable emotions and passion in others."


"The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer."


"He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession."


"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created."


"But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry."
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