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Art Quotes
"Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life."
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"We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings."
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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle."
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"The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art."
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"The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art."
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"The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art."
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"Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends."
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"Boomer had asked her once, in a telephone call from Virginia, "Why does this stuff, these hand-painted hallucinations that don't do nothin' but confuse the puddin' out of a perfectly reasonable wall, why does it mean so much to you? It was a poor connection, but he could have sworn he heard her say, "In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak."
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"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."
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"Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person."
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"The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed."
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"But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc."
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"The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well."
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"The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art."
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"In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of."
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"Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go."
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"After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock."
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"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
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"Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is."
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"I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire."
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"Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong-in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn't even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art."
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"I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script."
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"For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening."
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"In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you see or learn something new."
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"An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination."
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"A versifier's poem is born by the sound, a poet's sound is born by the poem."
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"Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."
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"We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life."
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"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."
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"From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections."
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"I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work - not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience."
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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
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"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."
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"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
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