Artistic Quotes - Page 23

• The world is in great need of more music education. When students play music, it allows a part of their artistic mind to express itself, which is very important in helping to balance a child intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Children, Play, Mind

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• I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Opportunity, Civilization

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, on October 26, 1963. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy", p. 817, 1963.

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• I did my New York debut at 21. It was “On the Town” at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  New York, Home, Theatre

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Education, Wall, Order

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.83, Read Books Ltd

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• Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

  John Wilmot

  Philosophy, Book, Swim

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2006). “The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester”, p.65, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Spiritual, Art

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• We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hysteria, Artistic Creation, May

  Sigmund Freud (2009). “Totem and Taboo”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

  Robert James Waller

  Passion

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.51, Random House

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• In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Art, Novelty, Process

  "The Science Revelation". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 26, nr. 7. p. 16, September 1970.

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• When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Knowing, Style

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• Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

  Stephen Leacock

  Humor, Expression, May

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.28, McClelland & Stewart

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• Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

  Raymond Chandler

  Integrity, Men, Hollywood

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.120, Univ of California Press

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• Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

  Arthur Guiterman

  Tongue, Cold, Worst

  Arthur Guiterman (1929). “Song and laughter”

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• A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Noise, Fields

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• Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

  Samuel Beckett

  Suffering, Conditions

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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• The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

  Clive James

  Art, Expression, Long

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

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• Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Character, Artist, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (1940). “Characters of the Reformation”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

  Joni Mitchell

  New York, Abstract, Expressionism

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• True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Moving, Mean, Doe

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• When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

  Paul Budnitz

  Ownership, Process, Great Things

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• I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very
  depressed.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, People, Creative

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• The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing.

  Raymond Chandler

  Jobs, Writing, Perfect

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.244, Vintage

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• Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Men, Expression, Sticks

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

  Muriel Barbery

  Art, Writing, Gestures

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• Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Art, Intention

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