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Art Quotes
"When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination."
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"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
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"An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan."
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"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."
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"Expression that comes from the deepest, darkest place that most of us would rather hide from the rest of the world is the substance that will most likely also deeply affect others."
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"I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist."
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"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them."
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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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"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."
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"As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words."
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"Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be."
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"All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art."
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"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
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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?"
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"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all."
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"I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind."
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"The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are."
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"I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it."
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"The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict."
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"You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves."
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"Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line."
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"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
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"A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art."
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"Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow."
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"He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession."
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"We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation."
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"Ballet shoes... I cannot play with them like they're toys. But when the music is playing they get deep on my toes."
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"I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits."
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"Politicians are masters of the art of deception."
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"But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off."
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