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Art Quotes


"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."


"I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them."


"With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed."
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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."


"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."


"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."



"The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us."


"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."


"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?"
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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."


"Create with the heart, build with the mind."


"At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time."


"To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama."


"I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous."


"I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories."


"Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting."


"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."


"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."


"We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek."


"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it."


"That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe."


"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
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