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Art Quotes
"You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves."
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"He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming."
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"She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section."
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"An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it."
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"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
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"The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art."
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"Photographs shape the past in our own image."
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"Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see."
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"It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye."
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"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."
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"You must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial."
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"To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!"
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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"Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner."
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"Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction."
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"Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing."
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"Politicians are masters of the art of deception."
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"Write the story. Don't write sentences."
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"Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible."
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"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
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"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."
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"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished."
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"But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off."
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"I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training."
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"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
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"One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life."
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"Let authenticity ignite your brilliance and dignify your craft."
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"One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it."
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"Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong, we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde."
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"Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art."
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"The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly."
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