Art Quotes
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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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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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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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If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art
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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism...
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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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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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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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'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster's defence against 'the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.'
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
