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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove

Author: Camille Paglia
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I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey i

Author: Leander Paes
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When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a

Author: Bruno Tonioli
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My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achi

Author: Kathryn Bigelow
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

Author: Laura Dern
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Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers.

Author: Floyd Mayweather
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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belo

Author: Ivan Turgenev
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Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the coun

Author: Ai Weiwei
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I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-scho

Author: Robert Pinsky
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When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

Author: Robert Adams
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It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and th

Author: Herbert Read
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In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometim

Author: Julian Barnes
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

Author: Victor Pinchuk
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I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry

Author: Roy Lichtenstein
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I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

Author: Yayoi Kusama
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I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, w

Author: Brian Eno
Quote #501001

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can d

Author: William Morris Hunt
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All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opini

Author: CeeLo Green
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Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centur

Author: Deborah Wiles
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I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and

Author: Giuseppe Verdi
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I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection

Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private

Author: Adolf Loos
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Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house

Author: JR
Quote #499056

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the train

Author: Richard M. Daley
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Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camar

Author: Ricky Jay
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I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I

Author: Lisa Marie Presley
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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar

Author: Laura Riding
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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for har

Author: Horace Walpole
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and a

Author: Franz Grillparzer
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that bot

Author: Susan Vreeland
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Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a l

Author: Jonathan Galassi
Quote #497879

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Author: Ezra Pound
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Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned

Author: David Whyte
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The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it kee

Author: Robert Morgan
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I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or mus

Author: Jamila Woods
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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and readin

Author: Lynda Barry
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Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of

Author: Donald Hall
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like ma

Author: Ed Koch
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Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

Author: Rupi Kaur
Quote #497707

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people

Author: Fred Durst
Quote #497693

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even

Author: Edward Hirsch
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famin

Author: Flea
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders w

Author: Felix Dennis
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I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made

Author: Philippe Petit
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Author: Seamus Heaney
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Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

Author: Joseph Brodsky
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The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in politi

Author: Joseph Brodsky
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