Art Quotes
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Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.
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Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.
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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.
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Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.
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Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
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Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories and themes can give the overall presentation a recognizable, yet unique flavor.
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People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
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The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
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I'm drawn to talented, creative people who often just don't know how to support themselves - they're more focused on their work than trying to figure that out. So I commission a lot of works with artists who I like personally or professionally, and through that process, I wound up collecting a lot of art.
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The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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..one must agree with Rilke when he says that with 'nothing can one touch a work of art so little as with critical words..' .It was Marcel Duchamps who was critical, when he drew a moustache on the 'Mona Lisa'. And so was Mondrian when he dreamed of the dissolution of painting, sculpture, and architecture into a transcendent ensemble.
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There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
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The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being told what to think.
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Art matters.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
