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"978 Art Quotes

You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming.

Activity Aerobic Again Because
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Windows Chandeliers Illuminates Enveloping darkness
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Speak Morals Art Legislature
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art Entertainment Married Moral
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When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

Around Dead Part Rendezvous
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Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

Acting Along Aside Came
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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Bit Cover Fact Few
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Art must Parochial Cosmopolitan
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Artist vocation Send light
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

About Art Could Fail
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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

Artistic Believe Creativity Going
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Able Art Beyond Could
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I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

Achieve Artistic Been Convinced
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Art Call Creative Man
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Art Himself His Man
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Artist Doubt Interest No Interest
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Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

Art Freedom Gives Make
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Everything is acting.
Acting Art Everything
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There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

Am Anyone Arts Falsehood
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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Art Glory Good Least
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I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

Always Astaire Dance Dancing
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When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket.

Afford Back Because Bette
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Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
Art Design Ever Gets
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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Art Expensive Get Job
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Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Art Power Transform Illuminate
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Drawing Faster Leaves Less
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Art Arts Insurrection Laws
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Activity Any Delicious Disagreeable
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The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways - through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Drama Climax Two ways Terrorism
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Artist Darkness Duty Hearts
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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Accomplished Art Enthusiasm Nothing
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Art Dancing Stands Express themselves
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
Art Fury Movement Must
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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Anybody Anything Art Artist
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I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Art Artists Create Ego
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People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Chi Out People Think
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Always Art Confession Everywhere
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things

Paint things Difference between
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc

An artist Prisoner
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft
Color Obtains Stem Witchcraft
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Drawing Making Expressive gesture Permanence
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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Literally paint Emotion Produce
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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted

More difficult Truly creative Painter
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Years Preparation Young artist Color
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The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.

Summon Energy Sincerity Greatest modesty
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

Work Art Significance Impose
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time

Effort Distortion Courage Essential
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

Vision Creative operation Effort
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All art worthy of the name is religious.

Art worthy Name Religious
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

Astonishing Understanding Art
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