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Art Quotes
"All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art."
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"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
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"As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things."
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"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs."
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"I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased."
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"A fleeting second on someone's news feed, No dearth of meanings for those who read, Not my stories but 'tis what I think, I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams."
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"The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed."
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"He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it."
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"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures."
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"The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible."
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"I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot."
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"I've only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel."
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"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
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"And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say."
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"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."
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"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."
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"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
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"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men."
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"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."
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"Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be."
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"Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space."
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"The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art."
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"Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books."
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"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."
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"I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist."
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"Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed."
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"The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules."
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"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
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"I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass."
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