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Art Quotes
"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."
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"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
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"Human requirements are the inspiration for art."
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"He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places."
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"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."
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"All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism."
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"Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice."
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"To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace."
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"The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative."
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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
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"For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not many such books. All the rest is either topical trash or what some call the Literature of Ideas, which very often is topical trash coming in huge blocks of plaster that are carefully transmitted from age to age until somebody comes along with a hammer and takes a good crack at Balzac, at Gorki, at Mann."
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"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
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"No one cares about the artist Kafka, who troubles us with his puzzling aesthetic, because we'd rather have Kafka as the fusion of experience and work, the Kafka who had a difficult relationship with his father and didn't know how to deal with women."
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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."
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"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
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"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
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"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons."
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"Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems."
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
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"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
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