Read quote“Music has a power — it's a powerful weapon of peace, and we need to use art to get close and just to destroy all these stupid barriers we have.”
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About Art
Creative expression through visual, literary, performing, or other forms, used to communicate ideas, emotions, experiences, or perspectives.
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Words on Art
Read quote“That’s what art is supposed to do—art makes people feel less alone, in their joy or their struggle or their pain.”
Read quote“I was born to be an artist, painting from as far as I could remember.”
Read quote“To me, sword is a kind of locus on which thoughts are projected. It's a projection of a person's spirit.”
Read quote“It’s always a disguise of a sort and it’s always a revelation of a sort.”
Read quote“Estamos retomando el melodrama clásico”
Read quote“It has to do with my intention of examining the body, which is an important element in live performances.”
Read quote“My effort has been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting … but at the same time give the human touch “which makes the whole world kin” and which ever remains the same.”
Read quote“My music is essentially a trajectory of my life and my personal and professional growth.”
Read quote“Ser actor es más un instinto humano que una profesión.”
Read quote“All my filmmaking is an attempt to create a space for memory, to recapture memory.”
Read quote“It is a theme I enjoy exploring.”
Read quote“I like to make films that provoke discussion”
Read quote“The length of a movie all depends on what you want to say. I don’t care what is acceptable.”
Read quote“The poet should remain as a cell of good living in a corrupt society.”
Read quote“The very best computer programs rise to the level of art. They are beautiful.”
Read quote“He is an artist carrying a message, delivered by his voice, directed towards the Arab audience everywhere in the world.”
Read quote“美空ひばりには神様がいる。でも本名の、加藤和枝には神様がいないの”
Read quote“Acting and singing are my life.”
Read quote““Gambling,” says Painter Graham Sutherland, “is awfully like painting. However much you know about painting there’s always the gamble as to whether that actual physical touch will do what you want it to.””
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Quote Stories about Art
Paint That Keeps Moving
Ansel expected to repaint a delivery van. Instead, a florist, an apprentice, and a handful of favorite flowers persuaded him to let his craft change with the seasons.
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A Kiln with Many Hands
When a potter inherits a failing communal kiln, she plans to work alone. Then cracked bowls, muddy boots, and a crowd of determined neighbors teach her what the kiln was built to hold.
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What the Lanterns Learned
Otta knew how to save a puppet’s past. The young performers needed her to help invent its next step.
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