Quotes 741 till 760 of 963.
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
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The object of art is to give life a shape.
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The only true criticism of high art is silence, silence as grand as heaven itself.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.
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The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
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The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
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The preference for certain subjects in any art is a sign of compact between the artist and society.
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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