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"978 Art Quotes

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Art Vice You Legitimately
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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Live Pain Light Gray
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As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

Cartoonist Find First Like
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Art Dancing Like Living
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Above Angry Art How
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Mean More Say Than
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If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Draw Kid Kitchen Magnet
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Art Right-hand Nature Made
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Art Break Crime Going
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At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

Heart Art Great Essential
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Art depends on luck and talent.

Art Depend Luck Talent
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Artist Value What Doing
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First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

First Magnificent Artist
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The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

Painting Heart Telling Salvation
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. Together

Painting Poetry Chooses Universal
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In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
Need Color Light Shade
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I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

Being Buildings Design Designing
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“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”

Idea Understanding Film Believe
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I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

Always Art Been Director
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Artist Fail Failure World
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Through Art Emerge Person
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Art Nature Speeded-up God
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Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

Art Seems Above State
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The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Free Soul Abstract Painting
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Dignity Art Lies Duty
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Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
Spring Movement Life-stream Unconscious
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Artist Gives His Imitators
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Anything Art Cunning Face
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Art Particular Sort Struggle
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Art Conscience Dark Deep
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Actually Create Establishment Feel
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

About Culture Everything Makes
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
Art Dear Money Need
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Actually Becomes Begins Between
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Art Common Find Greatness
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Art Close Economics Kin
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Nollywood is the best vehicle of African art and culture.

Best Vehicle Art Culture
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I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

Artistic Big Big Impact Control
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Life Beautiful Art Moves
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

About Day Few Hard
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

Always Basic Decided I Write
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I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.
Ballet Ballet Dancer Dancer Got
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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Also Although Arts Away
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I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal.

About Challenge Equal Exactly
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I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.
Anyone Art Consolation Firmly
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…For me, art is not just a talent or career. For me, it is a ministry where you get to showcase your talent to the world, where you have to use your craft to tell stories and the world will see it and appreciate it.

Art Talent Career Ministry
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You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

Afraid Art Become Exhilarating
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My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Art Fine Fine Art Increased
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Art Artist Baltimore Before
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