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" The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. "
Jerzy Kosinski
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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. "
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" When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. "
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" Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. "
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" The message of great art is to disturb. "
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" It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time. "
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" Art is to be free. Design is to fix. "
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" I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write. "
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" Layer by layer art strips life bare. "
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" Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. "
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" Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. "
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" The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art. "
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" I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. "
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" A painting that is well composed is half finished. "
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" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "
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" There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. "
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" I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. "
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" I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. "
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" My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in. "
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" To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art. "
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" It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. "
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" Trash has given us an appetite for art. "
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" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "
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" Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower. "
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" The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. "
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" Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. "
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" Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. "
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