Famous Quotes: Art

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
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I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
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Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
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