Fine Arts Quotes - Page 8

• Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Art, Long, Wonderful

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• Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Believe, Simple

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  Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Hate, Creativity

  Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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• I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Art, Clever, Love You

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Doubt, Inspirational Art

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• It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Art, Strive

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Art, Way, Fine

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Color, Trying

  "Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews". Book by Joan Miró, editing by M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987.

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• For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Intelligent, Careers

  "Joni on Point". Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Paint, Fine

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• A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs, and as creative as any of the best fine-art photographs. [...] I don't want to just be a photo essayist; I'm more interested in single images...ones that I feel are good enough to stand on their own.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Art, Strong

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• The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.

  Joel Barlow

  Education, Art, Ideas

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• My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

  Paul Getty

  Art, Saws, Architecture

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• I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.

  William Melmoth

  Art, Men, Mind

  William Melmoth (1805). “Fitzosborne's Letters on Several Subjects”, p.1

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• Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

  Bill Griffith

  Romantic, Art, Vision

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• I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mom, Art, Home

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• There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Enemy, Looks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Numbers, Littles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts.
  The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war.
  The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order.
  And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs.
  their names, in Newspeak:
  Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty

  George Orwell

  Art, War, Memorable

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Looks, Sometimes

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• I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Art, Fun, School

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• That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Real

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• In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Art, Fine, Wells

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• The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Animal

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.152, Graphic Arts Books

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