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Art Quotes
"A great artist paints a picture on the canvas of his mind using the colors of his love and imagination before transferring the image onto a real canvas."
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"All forms of art are parallel expressions. Writing is not unlike painting or other artistic endeavors. Each artistic endeavor is an expression of the mystery of the world. The job of the artist is to deepen that mystery, express reverence for the mystery of life, and explore the enigmatic aspects of human nature."
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"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
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"Paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ..."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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"If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul."
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"Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel."
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"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."
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"Through pictures, we can imagine and visualize the reflection of the beauties which our eyes can't see."
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"The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing."
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"Music heals all forms of misery."
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"Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression."
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"Her secret? It is every artist's secret-passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials."
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"An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. He sees how much more valuable is one burst of blazing light, one peal of perfect thunder, than the mere common bodies of a few shapeless policemen. An artist disregards all governments, abolishes all conventions. The poet delights in disorder only. If it were not so, the most poetical thing in the world would be the Underground Railway.''So it is,' said Mr. Syme.'Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when any one else attempted paradox."
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"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."
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"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."
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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
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"Make good art. It doesn't matter what you do so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it."
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"The idea that people can be improved by being offended will finally have to meet the idea (espoused some of the time by some of the same people) that books, popular songs, movies, television shows, sex videos, and so on are "just fiction" or "just art" and therefore exist "for their own sake" and have no influence. To argue that works of art are "only" fictions or self-expressions and therefore cannot cause bad behavior is to argue also that they cannot cause good behavior. It is, moreover, to make an absolute division between art and life, experience and life, mind and body - a division that is intolerable to anyone who is at all serious about being a human or a member of a community or even a citizen."
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"Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram's grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air."
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"Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression."
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"An illusionist can make himself disappear; a musician can do the same thing: When he plays a piano, after a while we start seeing only the music, not the man!"
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"Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist's nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences."
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"Art is an expression of inner perception as an outer reality."
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"The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors."
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"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."
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"Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone."
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"Let those who can sing to sing on top of their voices and those who dance to dance to their very best rhythm."
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"Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive."
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"The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc."
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"An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"Colors don't come in shapes.They come in depth."
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"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."
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