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Art Quotes
"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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"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
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"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
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"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins."
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"Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the window, and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes representing any scene that happened momentarily to shape itself in the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of imagination: a glimpse of sea between two rock; the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disc; a group of reeds and water-flags, and a naiad's head, crowned with lotus-flowers, rising out of them; an elf sitting in a hedge-sparrow's nest, under a wreath of hawthorn bloom."
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"Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures."
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"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing."
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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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"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."
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"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
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"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."
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"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
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"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive."
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"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."
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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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"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down."
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"A farce or comedy is best played, a tragedy is best read at home."
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"Music is everywhere. It's in the air between us, waiting to be sung."
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"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
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"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't."
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
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"Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist."
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"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
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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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"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him."
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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."
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"Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo."
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"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
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"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."
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"I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively."
Art,
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