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" Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. "
Jerry Saltz
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" Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. "
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" Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. "
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" The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous. "
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" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "
John Ruskin
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" Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? "
Paul Gauguin
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" Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. "
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" Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. "
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" I cry out for order and find it only in art. "
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" Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there. "
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" 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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" Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. "
William Wordsworth
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" It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result. "
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" I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. "
Keith Haring
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" Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. "
Edward Steichen
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" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "
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" I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it. "
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" To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. "
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" A great artist is always before his time or behind it. "
George Edward Moore
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" To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. "
Alexander Calder
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Enough
" You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not. "
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" Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. "
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" What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. "
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" Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. "
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" There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. "
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" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "
Pablo Picasso
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" My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself. "
Joyce Carol Oates
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" I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.' "
Haskell Wexler
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" For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. "
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