Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz -
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann -
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
Ville Valo HIM -
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
Maggie Nelson -
We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.
F. Sionil Jose
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Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.
F. Sionil Jose -
I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
Yayoi Kusama -
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
Baz Luhrmann -
From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
Sade Adu -
Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.
Ayn Rand
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I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.
Jaye Davidson -
I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'
Peter Capaldi -
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire -
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire -
I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science from a microscope or from a different lens, you can see the beauty in science. It is very artistic.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.
Frank Murphy -
Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
Cameron Diaz -
I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
Penn Jillette -
I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.
Yara Shahidi -
I have the happiest, most confident babies, and I know it's because they feel that strong love from their parents.
Jessie James Decker -
Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
Mikhail Baryshnikov