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" Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. "
Thomas Wolfe
Art
Elevated
Culture
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" It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. "
Anais Nin
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" Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. "
Truman Capote
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" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "
Simon McBurney
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" Trash has given us an appetite for art. "
Pauline Kael
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Trash
Us
" A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. "
Michael Heizer
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" Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter. "
Eva Hesse
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" Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. "
Isaac Newton
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Without
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" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "
Pablo Picasso
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" Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition. "
Sadie Jones
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" The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. "
Lord Byron
Pain
Art
Feel
" Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. "
Rainer Maria Rilke
Gone
Experience
End
" When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. "
Robert Mapplethorpe
" Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. "
Steve Aoki
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Passion
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" An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. "
Charles Horton Cooley
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Fail
Cannot
" Wherever art appears, life disappears. "
Robert Motherwell
Art
Wherever
Life
" Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. "
Robert Delaunay
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Light
" If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. "
John F. Kennedy
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Vision
Society
" I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. "
Michelangelo
I Am
Man
My Life
" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "
Camille Paglia
Boring
Head
Art
" Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.' "
Molly Crabapple
People
Art
Funny
" I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. "
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Arts
Thought
Cinema
" Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker. "
Barrett Foa
People
Time
Work
" It's harder to do anything in the public eye now, in terms of if you're worried about scrutiny or being judged negatively. It's not as much of a free ride. If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets, and they all have an opinion. "
Andy Samberg
Ride
Art
Eye
" An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. "
Andy Warhol
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Things
Art
" I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. "
Richard Avedon
I Think
Think
Art
" I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. "
Trevor Paglen
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Relevant
" People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage. "
Seth Rollins
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End
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" The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. "
Honore de Balzac
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Detail
Silent
" It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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After
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