Art Quotes
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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
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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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Power doesn’t always roar.... The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.
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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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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
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It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.
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We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible.
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I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.
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It appears to be monumental only because it's art.
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Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.
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High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
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I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events - that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special.
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My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
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Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.
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Music is the only art that actually lives.
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I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.
