William Morris Quotes
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
William Morris
Quotes to Explore
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
Raekwon
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
T Bone Burnett
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Camille Paglia
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar Wilde
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
Kate Micucci
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Larry Rivers
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'Connor
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock
