Tom Stoppard Quotes About Art
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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
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You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
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To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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