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343 quotes about art
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art Quotes
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
"I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives."
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
"When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift."
"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
"Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money."
"My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul, that my life left behind"
"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
"Everything you can imagine is real."
"I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?"
"Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
"Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus."
"Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance."
"Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity."
"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."
"You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves."
"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."