Art Quotes
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Route running is an art, not a science.
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
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The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.
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Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
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DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.
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I don’t consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don’t have the same references that I do. To me it’s very beautiful and it’s art, and to them it’s outrageous and crazy.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
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An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.
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The core of my writing is not art but truth.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
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Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.
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The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
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Hilda Reiss was the head of the Everyday Art Gallery. Hilda Reiss came from Germany, had trained at the original Bauhaus in Germany, and her training inspired her to think of anything that she liked as art.
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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
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My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
