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Art Quotes
"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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"Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late."
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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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"We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that."
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"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."
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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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"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence."
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"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that."
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"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
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"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
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"It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry."
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"When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us."
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"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts."
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"People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."
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"Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller."
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"Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence."
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"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."
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"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."
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"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
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"I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them."
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"With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed."
Art,
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"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men."
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"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
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"The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us."
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"When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it."
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"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"
Art,
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"A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now."
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"Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing."
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