Art Quotes
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When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.
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Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.
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I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
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Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.
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All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.
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Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
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Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening.
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We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.
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The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
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What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
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To leverage those things that are common to everybody, and to present them in a way that's sort of naked, is more courageous in art than constantly trying to be evasively too cool.
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Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
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A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.
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An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.
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Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.
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Comedy is like music - there are genres and styles for every taste. Katy Perry is there for people who like frothy pop music. Metallica is there for people who like head-banging metal. And Susan Boyle is there for... well, I don't who the hell is listening to that freak of nature, but that's not the point. In art, there's something for everybody.
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Art is elimination of the unnecessary.
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I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because it's part of my journey.
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People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
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I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
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Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.
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All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
