Willem de Kooning Quotes
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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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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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
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For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
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The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
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I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
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I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.
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I'm gonna be dating her in ten years.
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On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
