Inspirational Quotes

Art

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

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I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

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I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

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You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

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I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture.

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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

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I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

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Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers’ songs and so forth.

Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers’ songs and so forth.

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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

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‘Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,’ the Whitney Museum’s 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it’ll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

‘Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,’ the Whitney Museum’s 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it’ll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

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