Quotes with art-project

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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • John F. Kennedy In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Carine Roitfeld In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Susan Sontag In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Sinclair Lewis In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Northrop Frye In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Carl Honore In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Ben Hecht In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Carl Sagan In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 24 (p. 431)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Susan Sontag In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Art Linkletter In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Arthur Erickson Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Art Spiegelman Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.
    Art Spiegelman
    American cartoonist and editor (1948 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Susan Sontag Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Wallace Stevens Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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