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Art Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
- I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we…
- I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember…
- Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like…
- Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't…
- One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know. . . . Once…
- It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to…
- The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- 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
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- 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
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov