Famous Quotes: Art

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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I cry out for order and find it only in art.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
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I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
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