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Art Quotes
"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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"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
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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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"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."
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"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."
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"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."
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"Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in."
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"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art."
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"Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again."
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"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
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"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination."
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"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
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"Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines."
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"A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned."
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"The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name."
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"I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment."
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"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."
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"Fucking is an art. The mere fact of introducing the cock in the cunt and moving it in and out until the ejaculation of spunk is not art. True, it is fucking, but the difference between that way of doing it and the way it should be done, is like the difference between a child's first drawing and a picture by the world's greatest painter."
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"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art."
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"The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?"
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"I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art."
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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."
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"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
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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 deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."
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"Comedians can turn laughter into tears and back again."
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