Washington Allston Quotes
Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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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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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
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For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
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My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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I am very Latino in everything I am and I do, but there's a part of me that's also something else. I'm reflective of the way this country's gonna be in the next 40 years. More multicultural is what we'll see.
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An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
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...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
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With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.
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Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.
