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" It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "
W. H. Auden
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" Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution. "
Donald Johanson
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Culture
Unique
" Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. "
Iris Murdoch
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Art
Soul
" 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
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" On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "
Charles Schwab
Art
Side
Museum
" Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. "
Oliver Herford
Modesty
Gentle
Pretending
" Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. "
Henry Louis Gates
Art
Justice
Censorship
" It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. "
Oscar Wilde
Really
Mirrors
Life
" Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. "
Aristotle
Persuasion
Observing
Art
" Baking is both an art and a science. "
Sherry Yard
Art
Baking
Both
" If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. "
Robert Mondavi
Art
Food
Life
" Every artist writes his own autobiography. "
Havelock Ellis
Autobiography
Artist
Art
" The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. "
Aristotle
Appearance
Aim
Inward
" Art is the triumph over chaos. "
John Cheever
Triumph
Art
Chaos
" Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. "
Oscar Wilde
Should
Art
Never
" My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. "
Giacomo Casanova
Art
Thinking
Teach
" Art history is littered with work that involves light. "
James Turrell
Light
Art
Art History
" In art as in love, instinct is enough. "
Anatole France
Instinct
Love
Enough
" If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "
Jim Harrison
Art
Fishing
New York
" 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
Visual
Writing
Picture
" Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. "
Alfred de Vigny
Except
Beauty
Ideal
" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "
Oscar Wilde
Think
Art
Great
" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "
W. H. Auden
Times
Us
Joy
" Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. "
Anish Kapoor
Artists
Art
Objects
" Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter. "
Eva Hesse
Life
Art
Last
" 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
" Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. "
W. H. Auden
Friends
Differences
Opinion
" My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. "
Tadao Ando
Hand
Art
Thinking
" I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. "
Jackie Kennedy
Art
Will
Beautiful
" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "
W. H. Auden
Guts
Words
Death
" Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. "
Georges Carpentier
Boxing
Only
Half