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Art Quotes
"The most complicated skill is to be simple."
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"Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake."
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"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."
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"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter."
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"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
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"There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time."
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"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
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"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have."
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"Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space."
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"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
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"The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago."
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"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things."
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"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
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"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."
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"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be."
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"Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have."
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"The perfection of art is to conceal art."
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"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
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"But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness."
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"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."
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"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
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"There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game."
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"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures."
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"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."
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"Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space."
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"What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession."
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"My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them."
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