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Art Quotes
"Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts."
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"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
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"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed."
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"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."
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"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
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"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
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"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution."
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"Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable."
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"Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space."
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"Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity."
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"What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession."
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"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."
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"Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late."
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"Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well."
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"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
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"Music is for souls & hearts to dance & sing.Art is for expressing your visionary being.Words are tools for exploring & celebrating.Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in.Waste not one jot of what you are given!Use everything you've got to maximise living."
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"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."
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"His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible."
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"The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies."
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"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."
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"Music is everywhere. It's in the air between us, waiting to be sung."
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"My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art."
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"Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo."
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"Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography."
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"When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words."
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"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."
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"Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't."
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