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"978 Art Quotes

When you create art, the world has to wait.

You Create Art World
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What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Art Moment Life Past
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Artist Himself Harder Time
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Art Communication Rest Discovery
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I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
Think Art Communicate Useless
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Art Conversation Hearing
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Rules and models destroy genius and art

Rules Destroy Genuis Art
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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

Learn Love Art Hate
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Want Art Education Freedom
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Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Art Man's expression Joy Labour
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Difficult Art Men Observation
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All any artist can do is please themselves.

Artist Please Themselves
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The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Creativity Close Detours Ends
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Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.

People Creative Energy Heal
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Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

People Save Best Art
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I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule

Believe Healing Power Art
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Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise

Art Immoral Virtue Witness
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation

Thing Artist Work Leisure
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Artist Nature Open Give
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Art Work Beginning Worth
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If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that's not about making angry decisions, either, it's about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art

Art Fail Decisions Right thing
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There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

Art Forms Control Ideas
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Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

Anything Art You Weapon
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Writer Eyes Paint Ears
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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Art Literature People Accept
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Art does not imitate, but interpret.

Art Imitate Interpret
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Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Wants Artist Pictures What
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Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

Idle Food Thoughts Art
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Art is a line around your thoughts
Art Line Thoughts
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
Artist Impose Vision Humanity
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A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Art Music Poetic Dream
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Art Hurts Easier Home
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world

Art Refining Materials World
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I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

Artist Creative People Imagine
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Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Artist Work Plant Horticulture
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Art is science made clear.

Art Science Clear
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Art Marriage Conscious
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Art Beautiful Fashion Time
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Emotion Work Art Value
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty Art Ugliness Subdued
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Being emotional is part of Artistry

Emotional Artistry Part of
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art Attracts Reveals Secret
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don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Understand People Art Mind
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Creative Work Difficult Tests
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Art Saved Depression Innocence
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Rebellion Art Death Life
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Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

Art Enchantment Artist Spells
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Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

Art Subjective People React
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I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

Suspect Noticed Art Lonely
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It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

Wrong Assume Art Exist
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