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Art Quotes
"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."
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"All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form."
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"One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago."
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"I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed."
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"The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo."
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"I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction."
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"When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories."
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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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"Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical."
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"Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible."
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"Democracy is the art of thinking independently together."
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"How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually."
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"I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there."
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"You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it's better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones."
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"Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page."
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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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"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is."
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"There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting."
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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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"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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"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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"It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on."
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"Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within."
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