Quotes with art-forms

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  • Charles Baudelaire A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Henry Fielding A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bill Viola A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Lionel Trilling A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • W. H. Auden A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Eugène Ionesco A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Marcel Proust A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Casey Stengel Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Freya Stark Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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  • Al Capp Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Sir Ralph Richardson Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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  • Ralph Richardson Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
    Ralph Richardson
    English actor (1902 - 1983)
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  • M. Redgrave Acting is the most immediate art of all.
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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