Art Quotes
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I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.
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You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think.
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Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status.
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A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.
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One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
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I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.
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I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
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I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.
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It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
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We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.
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The relationship of art and play: to play is art - consequently I play. I play enraged.
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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
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Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.
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The very idea of Palaeolithic art was deeply disturbing. Was not art one of the great achievements of high civilizations?
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I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
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Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.
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It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
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Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.
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Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
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Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.
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Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
