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" Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? "
Alfred de Vigny
Only
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Arts
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" Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. "
Stella Adler
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Art
Down
" I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life. "
Ron Hall
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" I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. "
Ernst Fischer
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" Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. "
Susan Vreeland
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Peace
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" Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. "
Socrates
Slow
Fall
Art
" Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. "
David Ben-Gurion
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Intelligence
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" All good art is an indiscretion. "
Tennessee Williams
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Good
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" Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. "
Henri Matisse
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Art
Newspaper
" Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed. "
Joe Rogan
Long
Fight
Boxing
" My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. "
Agnes Martin
Seen
Mind
About
" 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
Magic
Perception
Meaning
" When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.' "
Takashi Murakami
People
Try
World
" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "
Andy Warhol
See
Always
Street
" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "
Theodor Adorno
Delivered
Being
Art
" The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "
Emile Zola
Nothing
Work
Art
" A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula. "
Reed Morano
Art
Formula
Cinematography
" Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. "
Francis Bacon
Art
Only
Realize
" Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. "
Constantin Stanislavski
Love
Art
Yourself
" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "
Leo Tolstoy
Art
Transmission
Feeling
" Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. "
Alfred Sisley
Art
Love
Picture
" I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. "
Roy Lichtenstein
Teach
Better
Art
" I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art. "
Lynn Collins
Astrology
Many
Years
" Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together. "
John Legend
Art
Together
People
" We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. "
Paulo Coelho
Science
Want
Think
" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "
Albert Camus
Work
Conscience
Needs
" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "
Michelangelo
His
Hands
Brains
" Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? "
Alfred de Vigny
Fact
Eyes
Own
" I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! "
Sean Patrick Thomas
You
Start
Perfect
" The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. "
Elbert Hubbard
Process
Marble
Beautiful