Ali Smith Quotes
Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
Ali Smith
Quotes to Explore
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
Damien Hirst
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman
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We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
Filippo Brunelleschi
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
Lady Gaga
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Oriana Fallaci
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You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
A Tribe Called Quest
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In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
Harry Callahan
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Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.
Rachael Bermingham
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If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.
Lucy Liu
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Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
Ali Smith
