Famous Quotes: Art

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
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When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
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Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.
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I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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