Nicholas Serota Quotes
An honest curator will admit that judgement is fallible, especially for art made yesterday.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
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Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's 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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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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A lot of the vibe in London is being sucked dry because of the economic situation. It's very expensive, and it gives you nothing back. New York still feels like there's stuff going on. People are struggling to create art. There's still a vibe.
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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.
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Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
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I'm obsessed with Topo Chico.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.
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An honest curator will admit that judgement is fallible, especially for art made yesterday.
