Art Quotes

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"I have an absolute faith in the existence of the audience."
Orson Welles
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"I'm a filmmaker, and I want to continue being a filmmaker."
Orson Welles
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"The arts are not a way to make a living, they are a very human way of making life worth living."
Orson Welles
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"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
Orson Welles
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"I am essentially a man of the theater."
Orson Welles
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"The cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
Orson Welles
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"The best thing commercially, which it wasn't, was the best thing artistically."
Orson Welles
"I'm a very nosey person. That is my job as an actress - to be interested in human nature."
Joan Fontaine
"The craft of acting taught me the importance of listening."
Joan Fontaine
"The most moving performances come from lived experience."
Joan Fontaine
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"I'm here to entertain people."
Queen
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"The greatest show on earth."
Queen
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"A night at the opera."
Queen
"Art is the expression of the soul."
Pink Floyd
"Art is the voice of the voiceless."
Pink Floyd
"Acting is like a love affair with oneself, just without the complications of actually finding someone willing to be with you"
Elizabeth Taylor
"I've always thought that art is a reflection of the soul"
Elizabeth Taylor
"The camera loves what the camera loves, but the heart knows its own truth."
Ava Gardner
"Art without honesty is just decoration."
Ava Gardner
"Art is the only truth in a world of lies."
Ava Gardner
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"Dance is the only art where you become the art itself."
Rita Hayworth
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"The most beautiful performances come from authentic emotion, not technique."
Rita Hayworth
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"The greatest artists are those who paint with their lived experience."
Rita Hayworth
"The best art challenges you to think differently."
Pink Floyd
"Art without passion is just technical exercise."
Pink Floyd
"Art transcends the boundaries that divide us."
Pink Floyd
"Acting is like life itself - you must be truthful in every moment."
Joan Fontaine
"Art is the way we make sense of the senseless."
Joan Fontaine
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"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be against an age, not for it."
Orson Welles
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"Art is the life of a man; life is not the life of an art."
Orson Welles