Famous Quotes: Art

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
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The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
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We don't make music - it makes us.
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
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In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.
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With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
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When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.
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I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.
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There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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