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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art –and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
Marcel Duchamp
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.
Cyril Connolly
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I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
Egon Schiele
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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.
Julia Cameron
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Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
Alexander Alekhine
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
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Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
Benjamin Jowett
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Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
Muriel Spark
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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
Steven Pressfield
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All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
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Words may be false and full of art,
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
Thomas Shadwell
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler
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"Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control."
Earle Brown
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis
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Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant
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That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
Herbert Read
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Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
Leonard Baskin
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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens
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The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art-as-art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.
Ad Reinhardt
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Movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Pauline Kael
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
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Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Remy de Gourmont
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No one should ever work.
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost all the evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
That doesn't mean we have to stop doing things. It does mean creating a new way of life based on play; in other words, a ludic revolution. By "play" I mean also festivity, creativity, conviviality, commensality, and maybe even art. There is more to play than child's play, as worthy as that is. I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. Play isn't passive.
Bob Black
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