Famous Quotes: Art

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
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There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.
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As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
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Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
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God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
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From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.
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On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.
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