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Art Quotes
"Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal."
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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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"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
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"I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all."
Art,
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"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."
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"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
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"Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice."
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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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"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."
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"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art."
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"There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he has been given, has to write at his own intellectual level. For him to do anything else is to bury his talents. This doesn't mean that, within his limitations, he shouldn't try to reach as many people as possible, but it does mean that he must not lower his standards to do so."
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"It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me."
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"I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York."
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"A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it."
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"Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged."
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"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
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"A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors."
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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
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"I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ..."
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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
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"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."
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"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all."
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"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
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"Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you."
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"I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know."
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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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"That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century."
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