Art Quotes
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I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.
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Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
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A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.
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I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.
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Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
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My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
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I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.
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Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.
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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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The very idea of Palaeolithic art was deeply disturbing. Was not art one of the great achievements of high civilizations?
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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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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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It is very conceivable, that the labor of man alone laid out upon a work, requiring great skill and art to bring it to perfection, may be more productive, in value, than the labour of nature and man combined, when directed towards more simple operations and objects
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Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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If your child really loves art, get them some good brushes. Get good material and make them feel that what they do is important.
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You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
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If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
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It is difficult to make political art work.
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From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
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Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
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Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.
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Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action
