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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Émile Zola
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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
- Frank Zappa
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Music |
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Visual Arts |
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You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Visual Arts |
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All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.
- Stuart Wilde
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Literary Arts |
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
- Oscar Wilde
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Theater |
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
- Oscar Wilde
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Music |
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde
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Literary Arts |
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.
- Oscar Wilde
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Theater |
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Strong and convincing art has never risen from theories.
- Mary Wigman
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Dance |
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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
- James McNeill Whistler
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Visual Arts |
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Dame Rebecca West
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Literary Arts |
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- Simone Weil
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Literary Arts |
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My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.'
- Andy Warhol
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Visual Arts |
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All creations demand greenery of spirit.
- Diana Vreeland
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Visual Arts |
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What art offers is space -- a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- John Updike
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Visual Arts |
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You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
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Literary Arts |
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All art requires courage.
- Anne Tucker
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Visual Arts |
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Never settle for anything less than your best.
- Brian Tracy
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Visual Arts |
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The road to success is always under construction.
- Lily Tomlin
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Theater |
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Literary Arts |
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
- Twyla Tharp
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Visual Arts |
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A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.
- Leopold Stokowski
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Music |
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
- Susan Sontag
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Visual Arts |
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
- Simonides
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Literary Arts |
