Art Quotes
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
Randall Jarrell
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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.
Oscar Wilde
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Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.
Paige Bradley
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
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So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
Brian De Palma
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I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.
Lucian Freud
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I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.
Charles Saatchi
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In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.
R. O. Blechman
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I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
Danny Boyle
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I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
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Art is life, plus caprice.
William Ernest Hocking
