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Art Quotes by Bob Dylan
- The purpose of art is to stop time.
- Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the…
- Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do…
- Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.
- Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.
- Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate,…
- Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive…
- Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.
- Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.
- Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.
- Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
- In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.
- Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.
- Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.
- Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.
- Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.
- The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick,…
- The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.
- They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.
- Too much information about nothing.
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