"I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply."
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"Now my tapestry's unraveling."
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"You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art."
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"An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur."
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"There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist."
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"As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts."
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"An ad that pretends to be art is - at absolute best - like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair."
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"'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him."
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"Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man."
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"Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded."
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"That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl."
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"An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive."
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"Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying."
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"I committed crimes of passion and my soul was suspected, But it was thrown out of court because of course the Creator and I connected. He told me, "Fear not for thou art protected. Your life is being requested."
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"Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive."
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"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
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"Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer."
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"Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding."
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"In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically."
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"We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners."
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