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Art Quotes
"Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist."
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"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill."
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"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"
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"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination."
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"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
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"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."
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"In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go."
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"I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me."
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"Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time."
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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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"The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote."
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"Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold."
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"The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure."
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"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple."
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"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."
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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."
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"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."
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"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins."
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"The most complicated skill is to be simple."
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"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all."
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"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."
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"Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone."
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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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"More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result."
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"Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts."
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