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"978 Art Quotes

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
Most interesting Painting Expresses One thinks
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To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

Art An adventure Unknown world Explored
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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit

Art Me Anecdote Spirit
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If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
Only moved Color relationships Are missing Point
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I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!

Make You think Pretty pictures
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The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

Progression Painter's work Toward clarity Elimination
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For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

Authority Doctor Plumber Never questioned
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The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

Abstract artist Material existence Unseen worlds
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The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

People Weep My painting Same religious
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The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

First writing Human being Drawing
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Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime

Every work Art Uncommitted crime
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art Magic Delivered Being truth
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The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

Art Reflect History More truthfully
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Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Art Masses Confronting Conforming
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It is difficult to make political art work.

Difficult Make political Art work
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Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

Art allows People Dream Way out
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Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Literature Intended Dangerous Art
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There is nothing new in the speech. It is the same old wine in new bottles. It's a disappointing statement. In fact it is a disastrous speech.

Speech Old wine New bottle Disappointing
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Art Funnel Spirit Poured
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Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

Art Lover Run away Comes back
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There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

Something revelatory About art Totally creative Open doors
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What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

Really good Word Art Love
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When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

I have Uniqueness Almost impossible In art
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Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

An artist Be responsible Quite challenging More difficult
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I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

Slagged off Completely Art world Fancy
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We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.

See Own stories Good artist Whisper
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For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Art Restoration Discuss Terrible things
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Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Theater Story telling Feel entitled Playwright
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Art A mirror Reality Hammer
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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
Higher function Feel Appreciated Enjoy natural
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I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Never studied Art Taught myself Draw
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Nothing World Art Songs
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In case the artist happens to be better he appears to be more vulnerable.

Artist happen Be better Appears More vulnerable
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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

The purpose Transcendent art Express something
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Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.

An artist Consciousness Your picture Reality
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When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

Artist Form Revelation An advance
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Art is a delivery system for worldviews.

Art Delivery system Worldviews
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

The arts The reproduction Imitation Life
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Art Experience Aesthetic enjoyment Pattern
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Art Make us Better What
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Survive Life Artist Report
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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Paint Beautiful Pictures Important
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Sometimes I wish Writing Drawing
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If the artworks were owned or celebrate slavery or slave owners, they should be withdrawn from the museums

The artworks Were owned Celebrate slavery Withdrawn
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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Something Real People Stage
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

In art In love Instinct Enough
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Whole art Teaching Awakening Natural curiosity
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

An artist Somebody Produces things People
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Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Making money Is art Working Good business
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Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate rather than what they love.

Creating art Something beautiful Makes you Fulfilled person
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