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Small: To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the att
"To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation"
George H. Mead, Philosopher
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Small: When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories
Dario Fo
"When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories"
Dario Fo, Playwright
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Small: Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and
"Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience"
Jack Bowman, Actor
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Small: Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting
"Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting"
Jack Bowman, Actor
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Small: All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. Thats the difference between mere theater and pe
"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art"
Jack Bowman, Actor
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Small: Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization
"Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization"
Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet
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Small: The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who
"The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist"
Bruce Boxleitner, Actor
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Small: Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically even were the connecti
"Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history"
Allen Tate, Poet
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Small: You know, theres a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist f
"You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally"
David Cronenberg, Director
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Small: Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a
"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image"
Christopher Lasch, Historian
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Small: There is probably nothing wrong with art for arts sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mea
"There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago"
Allen Tate, Poet
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Small: I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. T
Ad Reinhardt
"I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities"
Ad Reinhardt, Artist
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Small: Art is Art. Everything else is everything else
Ad Reinhardt
"Art is Art. Everything else is everything else"
Ad Reinhardt, Artist
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Small: Art is too serious to be taken seriously
Ad Reinhardt
"Art is too serious to be taken seriously"
Ad Reinhardt, Artist
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Small: The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode"
Flannery O'Connor, Author
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Small: The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds
"The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds"
Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader
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Small: The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules
"The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules"
Kim Weston, Photographer
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Small: Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end
"Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end"
George A. Moore, Novelist
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Small: The art of love is largely the art of persistence
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence"
Albert Ellis, Psychologist
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Small: I dont think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it
Steven Spielberg
"I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try"
Steven Spielberg, Director
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Small: Art depends on luck and talent
Francis Ford Coppola
"Art depends on luck and talent"
Francis Ford Coppola, Director
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Small: It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found
"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
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Small: You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that
"You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all"
Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian
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Small: What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit"
John Updike, Novelist
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Small: Art is science made clear
"Art is science made clear"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
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Small: The enemy of art is the absence of limitations
Orson Welles
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations"
Orson Welles, Actor
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Small: I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist
"I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist"
Kim Weston, Photographer
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Small: What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, an
"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life"
Michel Foucault, Historian
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Small: Madness is the absolute break with the work of art it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissol
"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art"
Michel Foucault, Historian
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Small: Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art"
John Updike, Novelist
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Small: Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn
"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn"
John Updike, Novelist
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Small: Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. Its a weird combination of elements
Bruce Willis
"Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements"
Bruce Willis, Actor
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Small: I love the gallery, the arena of representation. Its a commercial world, and morality is based generally aroun
"I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery"
Jeff Koons, Artist
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Small: Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able t
"Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place"
Jeff Koons, Artist
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Small: There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of
"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art"
Jerome Bruner, Psychologist
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Small: Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods
"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods"
Iris Murdoch, Author
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Small: There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone
Duke Ellington
"There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone"
Duke Ellington, Musician
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Small: But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America
"But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America"
Beatrice Wood, Artist
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Small: A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art
"A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art"
Richard Ernst, Scientist
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Small: Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in t
"Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it"
Walter Pater, Critic
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