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Art Quotes
"Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me."
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"In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul."
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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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"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
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"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention."
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"And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the living winds, which flowLike waves above the living waves below.-I have sent books and music there, and allThose instruments with which high spirits callThe future from its cradle, and the pastOut of its grave, and make the present lastIn thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die,Folded within their own eternity."
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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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"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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"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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"Music is everywhere. It's in the air between us, waiting to be sung."
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"It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level."
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"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
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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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"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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"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."
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"I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively."
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"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."
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"Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely."
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"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect."
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"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it."
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"In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored."
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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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"A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it."
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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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"My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art."
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"Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo."
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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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"It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something."
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"A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors."
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