Art Quotes
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I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
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It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.
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I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
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I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
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We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.
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Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
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I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
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Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.
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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
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I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating and spending time with my family. I don't really find myself searching for things on the television very much.
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My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.
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Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?
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I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm able to look at every day, most of them either by notable friends and/or for projects that I've worked on.
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Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.
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Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
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I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.
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With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.
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There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.
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After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
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Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'
