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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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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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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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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The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.
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I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.
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America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.
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You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you
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An honest curator will admit that judgement is fallible, especially for art made yesterday.
