Jean Tinguely Quotes
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt -
I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.
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I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.
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Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
