Ali Smith Quotes
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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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.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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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.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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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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For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
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Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.
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Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.
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What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?
