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Art Quotes
"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."
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"The object of art is to give life a light through which you can imagine and see the world."
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"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
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"Be an artist in everything you do."
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"Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint."
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"Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that."
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"Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language."
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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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"A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art."
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"I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?"
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"It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide 'This is a movie I don't like,' basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and 'The Taking of Christ' right the hell out of them."
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"Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter."
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"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable."
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"Art it seems to me should simplify."
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"Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear."
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"All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge."
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