Willem de Kooning Quotes
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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.
Wendell Pierce
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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.
Pamela Meyer
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
Rachel Kushner
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Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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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.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Carl Andre
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Olivier Theyskens
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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.
Octavio Paz
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When I entered TV, I realised that it's not just all about art, but it has a business dimension as well. You need to take care of yourself. I also learned who my viewers are.
Coco Martin
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My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.
Mark Bradford
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I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
Dawn French
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
Aaron Johnson
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Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
Han Suyin
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning
