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George Lucas
Technology
Keep moving
Easier
Tell
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George Sand
Artist vocation
Send light
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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
Rita Dove
About
Am
Arts
Federal
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore
Art
Creating
Gardens
Imaginary
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Richard Wright
Artist
Bow
His
Imagination
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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.
Robert Burns
Am
Anyone
Arts
Falsehood
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Half of politics is "image-making", the other half is the art of making people believe the image
Hannah Arendt
Half politics
Image making
Art
Believe
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes
Artist
Confidence
Consolation
Doubt
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
Art
Living
Fine mingling
Letting go
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis
Dancing
Moving
Most beautiful
Arts
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann
Artist
Darkness
Duty
Hearts
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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.
Havelock Ellis
Art
Dancing
Stands
Express themselves
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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?
Lou Reed
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.
Lou Reed
Art
Artists
Create
Ego
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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.
Henri Matisse
Summon
Energy
Sincerity
Greatest modesty
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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
Henri Matisse
Effort
Distortion
Courage
Essential
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
Henri Matisse
Vision
Creative operation
Effort
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Jacques Chirac
Art
Construction
Europe
Possible
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Henry Ward Beecher
Being happy
Power
Extracting happiness
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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
James A. Michener
Arrogance
Artist
Profound
Thing
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
James Franco
Art
Art World
Because
Bring
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce
Above
Artist
Behind
Beyond
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That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.
Jamie Foxx
About
Arts
Chance
Everything
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
David Foster Wallace
Art
Brings
Depend
Good
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The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The art
People
True mirror
Mind
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
All things
Artificial
Nature
God
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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind When just the art of being kind is all that the sad world needs.
Khushwant Singh
So many
Gods
Creeds
Many paths
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The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.
Camille Saint-Saëns
The artist
Feel
Completely satisfied
Harmonious colors
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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.
Tracey Emin
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.
Tracey Emin
Slagged off
Completely
Art world
Fancy
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs
Thomas Wolfe
Culture
Arts elevated
Set
Beliefs
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All art forms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
Bertolt Brecht
Art forms
Service
Greatest
Living
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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man
Bernard Berenson
All arts
Poetry
Music
Visible
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The art of politics and the idea of cohering interests.
Benjamin Netanyahu
The art
Politics
Ideas
Cohering interests
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Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.
Big Sean
Feeling
More comfortable
Something
Worked on
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I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.
Big Sean
Stay honest
Boastful
Music
Art
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
Billy Joel
No longer
Afraid
Becoming lost
Journey back
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In case the artist happens to be better he appears to be more vulnerable.
Al Alvarez
Artist happen
Be better
Appears
More vulnerable
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We’re living in a fluid universe, in which the art of faith is not in taking one’s stand, but in learning to swim.
Alan Watts
Fluid universe
Art
Faith
One's stand
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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
Art
Love
Persistence
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The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
Alan Sillitoe
The art
Writing
Complication
Human soul
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Alfred de Vigny
The arts
The reproduction
Imitation
Life
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Alexis de Tocqueville
More wonderful
Being free
Harder
Learn
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The artist making intricate portraits of black life
Chika Okeke-Agulu
The artist
Making intricate
Portraits
Black life
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If the artworks were owned or celebrate slavery or slave owners, they should be withdrawn from the museums
Alibaba Akpobome
The artworks
Were owned
Celebrate slavery
Withdrawn
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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.
Anatole France
Whole art
Teaching
Awakening
Natural curiosity
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Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
Anthony Burgess
Every
Experience
Food
Greedy
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Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
Anthony Kiedis
Music itself
Color blind
The media
Radio stations
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Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.
ASAP Rocky
Man
Laws
God
Time
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
Chuck Close
Ease
The enemy
The artist
Things get
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