Read quote“Elevé con mi canto este templo para alivio del dolor.”
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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“I really believe that art is the best medicine.”
Read quote“If you think music hall ‘art’ is easy, just you read some of the songs and decide for yourselves whether they do not require an extraordinary amount of inventive elaboration … to make them effective.”
Read quote“El espíritu de la película son los actores, definitivamente.”
Read quote“The shot is a montage cell.”
Read quote“La forme est un message en soi, elle parle d'elle-même.”
Read quote“Mime is a universal art. It speaks in a speechless tongue that is immediately comprehensible to everyone.”
Read quote“A mãe da arte de todos os números feitos em circo é o salto.”
Read quote““Nonobjective creation” is not only a movement or a tendency in painting, but also a new ideology.”
Read quote“I love films that touch me deep inside my heart and soul, that grow inside me, infect and consume me.”
Read quote“Acting is a neurotic business.”
Read quote“There’s no such a thing as Australian art because there’s probably no such a thing as Australia.”
Read quote“我不要人家看我，有什么好看的，这么老了，我要他们听我的音乐，永远。”
Read quote“El teatro es el encuentro entre dos pilas magnéticas, escenario y público.”
Read quote“What I prefer is if the work allows the viewer to somehow create these events or fictions.”
Read quote“Must we not then renounce the object altogether, throw it to the winds and instead lay bare the purely abstract?”
Read quote“Burning things is not to destroy them; it’s just to transform them in another essence.”
Read quote““Ang makinis na kombinasyon ng realismo at arte.””
Read quote“I make pictures for myself.”
Read quote“موهبتي هي شهادتي!”
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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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