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Art Quotes
"It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us."
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"Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye."
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"Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science."
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"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself."
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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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"To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity."
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"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."
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"Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded."
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"This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come."
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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."
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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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"But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything."
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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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"The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict."
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"We're actors - we're the opposite of people!"
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"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind."
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"Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it."
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"He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession."
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"Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm."
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"There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing."
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"And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League."
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"Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious."
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"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that wretched term, were those of a man who knows he's in a cage, exposed to the jeers of all his old ambitions until he dies."
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"I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful."
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"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art."
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"Screw the beaten path! Do your thing. Write the best story you can. the rest will fall into place."
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"Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts."
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"With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed."
Art,
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"Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do."
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