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Art

«One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?»
Author: Andre Suares | About: Art, Humanity
«One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're looking through a window at lives you may or may not have experienced. But it's a mirror in the sense we've all felt lonely; we're all, at one time or another, looking for and hoping for love.»
Author: Diana Ossana | About: Art, Love
«No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation»
«No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short»
«No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul»
Author: Ingrid Bergman (Actress) | About: Art, Emotion, Movies | Keywords: The Twilight, twilight
«No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.»
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer) | About: Art | Keywords: bargain, hard drive
«One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it»
Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | About: Art
«No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art»
«No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Art
«No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Art, Nature | Keywords: arts, forms, imitate, inferior, natural