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Art Quotes
"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
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"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
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"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."
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"I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment."
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"Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art."
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"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
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"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
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"It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level."
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"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."
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"I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking."
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"The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy."
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"I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary."
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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
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"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."
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"I didn't have any interest in traditional art."
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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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"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
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"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
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"To have great poets there must be great audiences too."
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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
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"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
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"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
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"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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"But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary."
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