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1853 Art Is quotes by 1072 unique authors
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It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Looking at art is one way of listening to God.
— Wendy Beckett
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Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses,…
— Martin Luther
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God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.
— Kenneth Myers
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Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.
— Hans Rookmaaker
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Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it…
— Marco Tempest
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All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
— John Ruskin
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
— Michelangelo
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What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what…
— Federico Fellini
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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
— Neal Cassady
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
— Oscar Wilde
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Art is elimination of the unnecessary.
— Waldo Salt
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Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
— Anthony Burgess
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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're…
— William Stafford
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
— Jeanette Winterson
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I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
— Richard Avedon
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Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.
— Sol Saks
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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like…
— Truman Capote
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
— Boris Pasternak
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A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is…
— Alexander Morozevich
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients,…
— Joe McNally
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Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
— Helmut Newton
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