Anna Kamienska Quotes
To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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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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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
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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.
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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...if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
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Art does not tolerate reason.
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I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
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The goal for my girls and me has always been about beauty and fashion. Before we ever had the shows, my mom had a store for 40 years in La Jolla, and I grew up working there.
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Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.
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To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
