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" Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. "
Edgar Degas
You
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" Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. "
Russell Simmons
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" I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. "
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" Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. "
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Man
Practice
" My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. "
Steve Prefontaine
Artist
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Museum
" Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "
Igor Stravinsky
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Borrow
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" Layer by layer art strips life bare. "
Robert Musil
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Layer
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" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "
William S. Burroughs
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" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "
Ambrose Bierce
Thinking
Logic
Art
" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "
Theodor Adorno
Delivered
Being
Art
" Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. "
Anselm Kiefer
Life
Together
Illusion
" The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience. "
F. Sionil Jose
Life
Heart
Experience
" Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. "
Piet Mondrian
Art
Abstract Art
Pure
" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
C. S. Lewis
Like
Value
Friendship
" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "
Jay Kay
Government
Tax
Me
" The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. "
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You
Rapper
Look
" After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. "
Jeffrey Deitch
Movement
Impact
Art
" You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. "
Milan Kundera
Imagination
Nothing
Value
" My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance. "
Richard MacDonald
Fine Art
Art
Create
" My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now! "
Angela Cartwright
Way
Shadow
Now
" Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. "
Alfred de Vigny
Except
Beauty
Ideal
" What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. "
Rabindranath Tagore
Man
Response
Real
" The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. "
Max Bill
Orbit
Denied
Art
" The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life. "
Henry Moore
Most
Quality
Art
" The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. "
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Work
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Artist
" Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. "
Claude Monet
Color
Art
Obsession
" Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. "
Paul Cezanne
Art
Lies
Paint
" An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. "
Maurice Chevalier
Public
Life
Conversation
" I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. "
Barbra Streisand
Good
Art
Artist
" The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. "
Jackson Pollock
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Wear
Art