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"978 Art Quotes

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Serve Paint Door Open
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Earth Spider Scrap Paper
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Chaste Ignorant Dangerous Forbidden
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Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.
Blind Feel Man Painter
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

Intention Count Reason Prove
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I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Albums Artwork Being Enjoy
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

About Art Because Better
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

About Art Better Certain
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I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

Any Art Between Boundaries
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All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

About Art Does Focused
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Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Always Art Been Change
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Books Freedom Personal Discover
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I used to enjoy watching Ronald Koeman, even though he didn't play in my position. I loved the way he hit the ball, the talent he had to position himself.

Ball Enjoy Even Had
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The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

Among Art Country Endearing
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I knew 'Ojuelegba' was a good song, but I didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did.

Blow Did Expect Good
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When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

African Back Fabric Home
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No, fame has not changed Wizkid.
Changed Fame
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We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we're getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working.

African Artists Definitely Earn
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Music is everything to me, and I'm most grateful that it's all working out.

Everything Grateful Me Most
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My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

Another Doctor Doctors Down
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But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!

Heard Just Like Me
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I like to play small clubs.

Clubs Like Play Small
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I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Most Out Poverty Think
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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Politics Art Possible Creativity
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Decorate More Often Pictures
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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Because Curiosity Curious Doing
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Formal Gardens Guess Instinct
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Believe Implicitly Thing Way
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We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Allow Around Geniuses Our
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Art Become Hide Magic
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Absolutely Best Reader Writer
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Medium Matter Giving Art
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Great art stretches the taste, it doesn’t follow tastes.
Taste Art Stretch Follow
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Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Bridges Build Regions Unexplored
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We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.

Universe Create Artist Poet
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By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Even Extremely Heaven Hell
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Act Difference Does Makes
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Art Being Knowing Overlook
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Faculty Genius Little Means
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Action Control Direct Feeling
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Almost Devout Esteem Facts
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Come Force Idea Individual
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Door God Grace Subliminal
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Artist Bad BadManners Humanity
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Absorb Country He Him
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Any Becomes Fails Fulfill
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

After Cheap Pay Price
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Art Diplomacy Find Nice
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Anybody Economist Else Good
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