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Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

~Duane Michals

Topics: Any Arts Better Deal Does Good Invisible Kind Life Nature Never Other Photography Questions Real Real Value Reality Simply Superficial Than Things Truth Value

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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

~E. L. Konigsburg

Topics: Anyone Arts Away Came Chemist College Did Engineer Family First First One Go Go Away Guidance High High School Knew Living Made Mill Never School Small Small Town Something Teacher Town Where Who You I Came

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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

~Earle Brown

Topics: Arts Beginning Cage Changes Concepts Control Deal Degrees Functional Further General Given Indication Inherited Liberating Material Music Them Were

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I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

~Ed O'Neill

Topics: Arts Did Football Girl History Interested Minimum Ohio Only Pals Playing School Sports Studying University

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I studied fine arts, and color and composition was always my thing, but I've never been too wild with my fashion.

~Ed Skrein

Topics: Always Arts Been Color Composition Fashion Fine Fine Arts Never Studied Thing Too Wild

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There's a part of martial arts where we need humility and respect.

~Eddie Alvarez

Topics: Arts Humility Martial Martial Arts Need Part Respect Where

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I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

~Eden Sher

Topics: Arts Because Experience Know Life Performing Performing Arts Public Public School Say School Typical Whole

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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

~Edmund White

Topics: Abstract America Arts Before Equal France French Idea Identity Individuals Law Left Must Opposed Politics Revolution Right Since Thrive Us

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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

~Eduard Hanslick

Topics: Affect Arts Beautiful Feelings Follows Grant Imagination Indirectly Likely Organ True Which

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I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.

~Edward Albee

Topics: Am Arts Convinced Educated Full Fully Grounding Without I Am

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