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"I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with."
Juan Gris
"I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with."
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"The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery."
Ralph Hodgson
"The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery."
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"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."
Hillary Clinton
"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."
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"Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement."
Gerald Scarfe
"Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement."
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"For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series."
Frank Bruno
"For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series."
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"In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things."
Luciano Pavarotti
"In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things."
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"Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure."
Willem de Kooning
"Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure."
Art,
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"Make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came."
Wendell Berry
"Make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came."
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"I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums."
Christina Aguilera
"I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums."
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"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?"
A.G. Mojtabai
"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?"
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"I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire."
Tara Reid
"I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire."
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"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."
Susan Davis
"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."
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"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."
Daphne Zuniga
"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."
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"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."
Keith Haring
"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."
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"Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting."
Alla Nazimova
"Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting."
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"Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is."
Philip Sidney
"Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is."
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"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."
Antoine Fuqua
"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."
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"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."
Paul Valery
"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."
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"Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world."
Tommy Chong
"Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world."
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"I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog."
Jeff Koons
"I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog."
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"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
Agnes Martin
"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
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"I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed."
Frank Bruno
"I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed."
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"What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque."
Corin Nemec
"What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque."
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"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."
Aberjhani
"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."
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"Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art."
Dejan Stojanovic
"Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art."
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"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."
Darynda Jones
"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."
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"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."
Dick Wolf
"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."
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"For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction."
C. J. Cherryh
"For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction."
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"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom."
James Joyce
"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom."
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"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."
Josef Albers
"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."
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"Artists are like everybody else."
Damien Hirst
"Artists are like everybody else."
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"It is from the womb of art that criticism was born."
Charles Baudelaire
"It is from the womb of art that criticism was born."
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"I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music."
Flannery O'Connor
"I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music."
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"Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it."
Frank Wedekind
"Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it."
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"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."
Umberto Eco
"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."
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"Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject."
Dave Winer
"Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject."
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"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."
Malcolm Wilson
"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."
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"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."
Judy Chicago
"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."
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"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."
Blaise Pascal
"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."
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"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?"
E.A. Bucchianeri
"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?"
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"Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique."
Jane Rule
"Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique."
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"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn."
Martin Amis
"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn."
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"Explore your own innermost thoughts to create content that will evoke deeply relatable emotions and passion in others."
Ken Poirot
"Explore your own innermost thoughts to create content that will evoke deeply relatable emotions and passion in others."
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"Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves."
Aberjhani
"Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves."
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"The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer."
Christian Morgenstern
"The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer."
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"He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession."
Clifton Paul Fadiman
"He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
George Bernard Shaw
"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
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"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."
Bruce Beresford
"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."
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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."
Len Wein
"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."
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"But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry."
John Drinkwater
"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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