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Art Quotes
"I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant."
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"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
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"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know."
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"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."
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"There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within."
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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
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"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."
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"Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant."
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"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising."
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"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."
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"The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said."
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"I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know."
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"Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian."
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"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
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"I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing."
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"Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame."
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"Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself."
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"The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
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"As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words."
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