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Art Quotes
"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
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"Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization."
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"A versifier's poem is born by the sound, a poet's sound is born by the poem."
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"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."
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"The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him."
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"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."
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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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"I just want to be written about as a normal artist."
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"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
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"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
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"In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of."
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"I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one."
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"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
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"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."
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"Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal."
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"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice."
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"Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement."
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"The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators."
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"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
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"The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules."
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"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
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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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"Rock and roll was my favorite, but before long I grew to enjoy Shinamoto's brand of classical music. This was music from another world, which had its appeal, but more than that I loved it because she was a part of that world."
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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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