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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All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
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Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.
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The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.'
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
