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"978 Art Quotes

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

America Spite Exist Art
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Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Drummer Natural Musician Brilliant
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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Perfected Causing Suffering Humankind
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The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we’ve got to risk it too.

Great Artist Risk Failure
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Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Design Fundamental Soul Human
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Even after photographing for 16 years, I still consider myself a novice. I am still learning.

Photographing Consider Novice Learning
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Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

Painting Children Fulfilled Horrible
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

Complaining Cranky Depressed Everybody
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Training Drama School Study
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A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.

Concert Event Theatrical Rendition
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion Social Intercourse Form
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There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
About DaysGoes History Iraq
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Ashamed Say Should Think
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Art Intellectual Interpretation Revenge
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

Begins Art Frame Humble
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He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

Artist Art Hand Head
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Accomplishment Achieved Act Again
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Application Arise Cause Determined
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Appeared Communist Conception Crude
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Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Beings Culture Finite Human
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All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Always Cultural Knowledge May
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Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

Analysis Causal Explanation Judgment
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A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Cannot Club Cult Developed
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The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Beckham Confess Girl Her
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Arts Experience Personal Personal Experience
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I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

Choreography Dancer Dancing Did
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True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

True Literature More Than
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Painting Silence Thought Music
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Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

Colour Touch Eye Music
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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

When Another Writer House
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Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

True Art Genuine Virtuosity
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Affect Arts Day Highest
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Enemy Art Absence Limitations
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Artist Good Isolated He
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

True Every Artist Must
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Ever Given Laughter Line
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Writing has never been that simple for me.

Been Me Never Simple
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

About Anything Anything Else Else
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

About Books I Love Journeys
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

Art Central Fact Father
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Aesthetic Art Call Game
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Architect Bar Board Drafting
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art Philosophy Sake For
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Architecture Art Civilization Mother
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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Bred Buildings Character Environment
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Any Art Measure Qualities
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Age Architect Day Every
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The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Becomes Building Reality Space
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Advise Architect As Far As Build
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