“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
— Jean Cocteau
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Success and the art of making music
“Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.”
— Norah Jones
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Modern art is what happens when painters
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”
— John Ciardi
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In the world of language, or in
“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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My dad used to draw these great
“My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.”
— Kathryn Bigelow
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It is in this power of saying
“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”
— John Ruskin
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Patience is the art of concealing your
“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”
— Guy Kawasaki
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Great writing can be done in biography,
“Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.”
— V. S. Naipaul
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
“Art is the objectification of feeling.”
— Herman Melville
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Thou art my single day, God lends
“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”
— Robert Browning
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Art is like a border of flowers
“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.”
— Lincoln Steffens
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