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What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933) -
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
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What of Art?
- It is a malady.
Love?
- An Illusion.
Religion?
- The fashionable substitute for Belief.
You are a sceptic.
- Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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.
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When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.
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When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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