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Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.

~Alfred Stieglitz

Topics: Art Artists Before Essential Large Matter Meaning Meaning Of Means People Photography Real Really Taught Term Them Themselves Understand

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The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

~Alfred Stieglitz

Topics: Art Arts Departments Distinct Equally Expression Merely Other Own Photography Possibilities Process Separate Those Unless

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The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

~Alfred Stieglitz

Topics: Art Expression Goal Self Vital

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You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

~Alfredo Kraus

Topics: Art Choice Decide Make Music Popular Service Sing Start Tenor Top Very Want Whether You Your

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I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.

~Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Topics: Art Artists Bit Change Deliberately Doing Example Fed Fed Up Get Go Instead Little Little Bit Make May Means Out Point Quo Really Rock Some Status Status Quo Think Up Use Want Waves Who Will I Think

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You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.

~Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Topics: Able Art Influenced Matter Should Where You

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I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Art Boy Could Dressed Girl Make Now Renaissance Theory Whole

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It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Art Been Craft Crafty Cunning Dark Great Light Notions Preoccupied Quite Quite Some Time Side Some Time Twin Word

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People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Absence Art Built Celebration Existence Modernism Opposite Our People Really Round See Tend

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When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.

~Ali Smith

Topics: About After Art Before Beings Come Connected Encounter Exist Fixed Know Lived Meet Moment Opens Past People Present Rather Same Something Time Us Who Will Work

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