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Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Robert Smithson
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
Catherine Deneuve
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Thomas Fuller
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
Jerry Saltz
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
E. M. Forster
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Noam Chomsky
Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.
Simonides
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Jean Cocteau
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West
Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.
Edward Varese
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Charles Baudelaire
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Hunter S. Thompson
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
Robert Carlyle
Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
Marilyn Manson
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Luc De Clapiers
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Dave Barry
