Famous Quotes: Art

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
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Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
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An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
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Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.
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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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