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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

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In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.

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Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

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