Art Quotes
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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My kids are my greatest piece of art.
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Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
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I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
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I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'
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There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
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People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.
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It is difficult to make political art work.
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I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.
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One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
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Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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On The Sea being filmed It's not a blockbuster and it's not going to earn half a billion in the first weekend, but it's a work of art and I'm very pleased with it.
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Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!
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Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
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Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can be born from different kinds of music and the people who appreciate them.
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I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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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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We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.
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Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
