Art Quotes
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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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.
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
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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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A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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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.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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I try to not to overanalyze, not to watch myself too much, but to be present in life and in my art. I'm so glad it comes off in that way.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
