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Art Quotes
"What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant."
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"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."
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"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
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"Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form."
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"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."
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"Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life."
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"It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level."
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"Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does."
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"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
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"Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion."
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"To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment."
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"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."
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"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
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"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."
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"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."
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"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
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"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism."
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"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple."
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"Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well."
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"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust."
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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."
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"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
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