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“I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.”

Knows Art Remember Asks Answers Crosses Lawyer Examination Avenues

Author:James Lipton

“A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.”

Art Artist Asks Grows Taste Obsession Painter Suitable

Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

“Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.”

Way Want Should Kind Persons Art Book Sometimes Jobs Reading Asks Literature Easy Can Do Challenges Simple Effort Tvs Direct What You Want All Kinds Passive Obscure Interactive

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.”

Art Happens Asks Art Is

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.”

Art Stills Asks Knowledge Toppings

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.”

Art School Moving Asks Study Teacher Advice New York Mark What You Love Best Teacher Good Art Art School

Author:Mark Kostabi

“I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work.”

World Believe Art Said Stills Asks This World Blessed Rewards Obscene I Still Believe

Author:Edward Elgar

“My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked to apologize for that. It is interesting to me that people ask 'what's the point of doing that if it's not useful?' But they never ask that, or do they very rarely ask that about art or literature or music. Those things are not gonna produce a better toaster.”

People Ifs Art Asks Literature Interesting Produce Research Areas Practicals Fairness Apologizing Usability Toasters

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

“From film to film, I realize my strengths and my weakness, and I realize how much better I get. I learn the lingo, I ask questions and I'm on set trying to figure out which shots they're going to use. For me, it's exploring the art. It's not just making a movie.”

Trying Art Use Film Asks Realizing Figures Weakness Shots Exploring

Author:Naturi Naughton

“Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.”

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.”

Art Matter Asks Style Argument Praise Contracts Sail

Book:Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered

Source: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered

“Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.”

Men Should Mind Firsts Humans Kind Art Different Asks Type Experience Damn Different Kinds Rooted Human Experience Validity

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?”

Art School Asks Painter Sexism Renaissance Art School Great Women

Book:Sexist justice

Source: Sexist justice

“Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no-one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute.”

Art Enough Artist Asks Divine Tools Absolutes Trade Miserable Unattractive

Book:Art

Source: Art

“The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"”

Years Art Philosophy Next Asks Answers Please Entertainment Next Time

Author:Sidney Hook

“I have to go around and ask people for money, of course, quite a lot. And it's quite an art to ask people for money. But I think that I have to ask them for money for the things that I'm interested in, and of course, money breeds money.”

People Thinking Art Courses Asks

Author:Brooke Astor

“I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.”

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Author:George Steiner

“Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.”

Men Art Death Dies Asks Given Answers Forever Creatures Instinct Vain Urges

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.”

Knows Inspirational May Art Motivational Artist Asks Answers Art And Artists

Author:Dennis Quaid