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Art Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.
- Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
- Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
- It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's…
- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
- You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because…
- Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
- Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
More Art Quotes
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov