"Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art."
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"What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi."
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"Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory."
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"Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries."
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"Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity."
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"Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio."
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"Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort’s followers!” “Of course I haven’t!” said Harry indignantly. “He killed my mum and dad!” “You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly."
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"For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture."
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"The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior."
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"I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art."
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"Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?"
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"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
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"The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty."
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"Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all."
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"Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings."
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"I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art."
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"Art consists in making others feel what we feel."
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"The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
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"It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves."
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"Bad artists always admire each others work."
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