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Art Quotes
"I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
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"Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds."
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"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
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"Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories."
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"We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek."
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"The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing."
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"The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules."
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"Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style."
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"Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart."
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"Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it."
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"Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends."
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"We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is, how do you make a poem by Pushkin?- or, what exactly makes one poem or painting or piece of music greater than another?- or, what is beauty?, or liberty?, or virtue?- if the question is, how should we live?. . . then, reason gives no answer or different answers. So something went wrong. The divine spark in man is not reason after all, but something else, some kind of intuition or vision, perhaps like the moment of inspiration experienced by the artist . . ."
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"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."
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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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"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization."
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"Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art."
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"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent."
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"The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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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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"Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed."
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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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"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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"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors."
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"Such meeting reveal that which we all darkly suspect about those whose art we have loved: that they are unlikely to be whatever it is we imagine them to be."
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"The scene is France. The theater is the world."
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"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time."
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