Quotes with art-forms

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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My art and profession is to live.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bill Paxton My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Boyd Rice My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Bar Paly My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
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  • Bob Beamon My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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  • Art Linkletter My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Betty Parsons My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • Allen Tate Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Northrop Frye Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Nature is the art of God.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • John Dryden Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Carol Bellamy New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Brad Holland New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • John Ruskin No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ingrid Bergman No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul.
    Ingrid Bergman
    Swedish actress (1915 - 1982)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Ruskin No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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