Marco (Marco Francesco Andrea Pirroni) Quotes
Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.Marco Adam and the Ants
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
Nate Lowman -
I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
Edgar Wright -
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Victor Pinchuk -
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
Barry Eisler -
I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Wendy Carlos -
As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar Wilde -
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Rachel Kushner
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
Wendell Pierce -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
You give before you get.
Napoleon Hill -
For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
Rachel Kushner -
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society.
Lydia Lunch
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
Candice Bergen -
I'm a late developer.
Kristin Scott Thomas -
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.
Katherine Dunham -
I have always been astonished by hate. Revenge and hate. That is such strange human elements. I have seen a lot of that in my life. I am just as surprised each time. By revenge and hate.
Odd Nerdrum -
Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.
Marco Adam and the Ants