Ai Weiwei Quotes, Art Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

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Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Creativity Quotes

By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thout keepst me free. Lest I forgot them they never venture to leave me alone. But day passes by after day and thou art not seen. If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Art Quotes , Prayer Quotes

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life Quotes , Art Quotes

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Art Quotes , Architecture Quotes

The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

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Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Art Quotes , People Quotes

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Art Quotes , Long Quotes

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Artist Quotes

My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Religious Quotes , Art Quotes

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Unique Quotes

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

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Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Powerful Quotes

(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Art Quotes , Stars Quotes

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Art Quotes , Laughter Quotes