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Milan Kundera Writer
Art

"High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium."

Children Art Race
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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Art

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

Art Business Design
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Art

"It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae."

Writing Mean Art
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Sally Mann Photographer
Art

"It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art."

Art Home Philosophy
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
Art

"To love someone whom you like is insignificant. To love someone because they love you is of no consequence. To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life. To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living."

Art Love Life Lesson
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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
Art

"In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable."

Art Real Criticism
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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
Art

"They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never."

Art Emeralds Emerald Green
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Agnes Martin Artist
Art

"I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond"

Thinking Art Night
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
Art

"The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups."

Art Self Guy
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Art

"The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily."

Men Art Responsibility
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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
Art

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

Art Life Moving
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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Art

"Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm"

Art War Enemy
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Russell Lynes Photographer, Writer
Art

"The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there."

Art Home Wall
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Gabriel Marcel Philosopher, Playwright
Art

"Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go."

Art Real Letting Go
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