Art Quotes
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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
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Art doesn't always mirror life and life's hard sometimes.
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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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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
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What greater challenge today.. ..to disorder and insensitivity; what greater propaganda for integration than this emotionally intense, dramatic division of space? quote in 1943, discussing the art of Piet Mondrian
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Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
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I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
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Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.
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Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
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He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
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Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.
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All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree.
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Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.
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Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.
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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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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
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Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.
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Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.
