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Art Quotes
"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."
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"Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation."
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"Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out."
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"A pen, a piece of white paper, and an idea can create a new you."
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"Poetry is an act of love. Without love life is impossible. Without poetry love has no exuberance."
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"An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself."
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"Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery."
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"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."
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"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."
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"An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear."
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"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
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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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"If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul."
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"The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing."
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"Let your pain lead you to creativity."
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"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."
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"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
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"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."
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"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
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"A photograph captures a magical moment for the future to ponder."
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"When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines."
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"What are words without the melody?"
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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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"To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare."
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"Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!"
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"An art is a poetry but only a few can read it."
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"When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it."
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"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."
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"Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt."
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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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"Through art we can see the reflection of the inner world of an artist."
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