Carine Roitfeld Quotes
In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
Carine Roitfeld
Quotes to Explore
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
Kate Bush
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. Milne
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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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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Oscar Wilde
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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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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.
Floyd Skloot
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Lady Gaga
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
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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.
Yoko Ono
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
Walter Pater
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia
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When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
Alex Grey
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I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot of personal information about my past or who I am. I would rather the personal side of it just be in the concepts and the genuine feelings that I filter through my work. I know that it's inevitable that people can find whatever they want about me. Once I've had a chance to create a language and a world with my art, then I'm more comfortable sharing that information.
Alexandra Ashley Hughes
Austra
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
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I would love to retire a Raider, but I have earned the right to be a free agent.
Richard Seymour
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In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
Carine Roitfeld
