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Art Quotes
"Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language."
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"Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!"
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"An artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think."
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"I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush."
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"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
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"Music is the emotions that words can not express."
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"Your skill is the artistry you bring to your world, put out awe inspiring work."
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"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."
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"Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all."
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"The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity."
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"The best writing is embarrassing, that's all there is to it."
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"Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung in the air instead of on a piece of paper. Dancing was a grand equation. One side was sound, the other movement. The dancer's job was to make them equal."
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"The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist."
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"How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I'd like to see these kids try to artfully use a traditional film camera or make a super 8 home movie. Traditional film takes integrity, nostalgia, effort, patience and imagination - things that the 21st century has very little of. Everything these days, even a superior medium like film photography with an extensively vivid history and an iconic meaning, is becoming disposable in this age."
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"We possess art lest we perish of the truth."
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"Every song is a story unfolding."
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"(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I've seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it, Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency?"
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"There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself."
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"We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth."
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"The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at the moment when we truly live, and if we do not speak it, it is because we have an impediment in our speech. It is not song that is the narrow or artificial thing, it is conversation that is a broken and stammering attempt at song. When we see men in a spiritual extravaganza, like Cyrano de Bergerac, speaking in rhyme, it is not our language disguised or distorted, but our language rounded and made whole."
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"Music , literature with poetry makes a perfect paradise."
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"We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!"
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"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."
Art,
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"A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper."
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"Life is an unfinished art, few master it, most just bark."
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"The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day."
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"I'd never heard of them, but at that moment, it was the best song I'd ever heard. I went out and bought Ten and listened to it on repeat. When I listened to track five, 'Black,' it was like I was there, in that moment all over again.After the summer was over, when I got back home, I went to the music store and bought the sheet music and learned to play it on the piano. I thought one day I could accompany Conrad and we could be, like, a band."
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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation."
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"Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon."
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"Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity."
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"That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem."
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"Believe me, once you have tasted worship - the kind of worship that captures your heart and rivets your full attention on the living Lord - nothing less satisfies. Nothing else even comes close. Once you have tasted true worship, you will never want to play church again."
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"Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on."
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"A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity."
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"An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity."
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