Famous Quotes: Art

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Vision is the true creative rhythm.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
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We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
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