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The real art of conducting consists in transitions. -- Gustav Mahler
You'll need to suffer to make any real art. -- Chuck Palahniuk
... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away. -- Daisy Goodwin
I was a real art freak when I was a teenager. -- Helen McCrory
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy. -- Anna Deavere Smith
The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing. -- Laozi
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. -- Woodrow Wilson
The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in. -- Steve Jobs
real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things. -- Emily Carr
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. -- Ezra Pound
Any fool can masturbate, but it takes a real artist to make it look like sex. -- Jarod Kintz
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Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. -- Sebastian Bach
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them. -- Aaron Carter
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. -- William Morris
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet. -- Seth Godin
A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory. -- Shawn Lukas
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. -- Walt Whitman
The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not. -- Roz Chast
I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically. -- Amber Heard
My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele. -- China Anne McClain
Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist. -- Becky G
I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art. -- Daniel Bruhl
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it. -- Keith Richards
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive. -- William Dobell
The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork. -- JR
One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism. -- David Foster Wallace
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it. -- Kim Gordon
I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers. -- Perez Hilton
As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job. -- Black Francis
Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict. -- Tom Clancy
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it. -- Alma Gluck
I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity. -- Josh Hartnett
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons. -- Rube Goldberg
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does â??what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing itâ? -- Alma Gluck
Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries. -- Bill Gates
A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture? -- Rudolf Steiner
That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting. -- M.I.A.
I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician. -- Toni Morrison
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If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today. -- Orison Swett Marden
I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor. -- Jemima Kirke
I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young. -- Rockwell Kent
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur. -- Graham Swift
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished. -- Charles Bartlett Johnson
I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know? -- George Saunders
I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head. -- Suzi Quatro
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. -- Sydney Pollack
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace. -- Carl Jung
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Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me. -- Drew Barrymore
Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, teachings, caring, and resources into the emptiness of young peoples' lives. -- Luis J. Rodriguez
I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person. -- Lady Starlight
Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection -- Seth Godin
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity. -- Leo Tolstoy
When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York. -- Laurie Simmons
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. -- Andrea Dworkin
Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached. -- Leopold Auer
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. -- Martin McDonagh
It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation. -- Edward R. Murrow
I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the way you function in society, your beliefs and the way you live, that is where you will find a real musician, a real artist. -- David Finckel
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch. -- Honore de Balzac
The timing of comedy is so difficult. You've got to leave room for a laugh, you don't want to kill the laugh, but on film, you can't just suddenly stop for a laugh and then carry on. So, I think it's a real art form, comedy on film. -- Helen Mirren
An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss. -- Daniel Pauly
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know. -- Steve Irwin
There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic. -- Susan Orlean
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. -- Marguerite Duras
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. -- S. Jay Olshansky
I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within. -- William Jackson
Making reality real is art's responsibility. -- Eudora Welty
Real art must always involve some witchcraft. -- Isak Dinesen
Real success is making art your whole life. -- Kay WalkingStick
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. -- Susan Sontag
You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth. -- Gary Busey
Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life. -- Brooks Atkinson
Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant. -- J. G. Ballard
All art forms employ some means through which images become real. -- Elliot W. Eisner
Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones. -- Marty Rubin
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. -- Marianne Moore
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. -- Noam Chomsky
Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art. -- Lana Del Rey
The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art. -- Jeff Goldblum
If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate. -- Martin Mull
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. -- Robert Henri
I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time. -- Mike Colter
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being. -- Martin Firrell
I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form. -- Roseanne Barr
The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible. -- Jean Dubuffet
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness -- J. W. N. Sullivan
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. -- Susan Sontag
A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real. -- Yann Martel
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. -- Josh Peck
The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art. -- Teller
Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. -- G. H. Hardy
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. -- Andre Maurois
The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it. -- Jeffrey Loria
Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. -- Virginia Woolf
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. -- Andy Warhol
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. -- Rabindranath Tagore
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art -- Maurice Ravel
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. -- Sol LeWitt
Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. -- Vivienne Westwood
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. -- Maurice Ravel
Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul. -- Edward J. Fraughton
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life. -- Jeanette Winterson
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. -- Gustave Courbet
The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others. -- Harold Geneen
Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality -- Jean Rousset
Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art. -- Robert Redford
That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother? -- Gregory Maguire
That's one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing's real, it just lives. -- Woody Allen
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art -- James A. Baldwin
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. -- Albert Camus
There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. -- Daphne Guinness
"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist." -- Leo Tolstoy
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. -- Philip Jones Griffiths

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