Art Quotes
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
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I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn't really figure out why. Then I got into college and started messing around with photography, and I realised that it was about getting the images that were in my head out in a way that didn't have to be spelt correctly.
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To sense the invisible and to be able to create it - that is art.
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I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
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My work is about structure. It has never been a reaction to Abstract Expressionism. I saw the Abstract Expressionists for the first time in 1954. My line of influence has been the 'structure' of the things I liked: French Romanesque architecture, Byzantine, Egyptian and Oriental art, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Klee, Picasso, Beckman..
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Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
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I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.
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In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
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I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.
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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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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.
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That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
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I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
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But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
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Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
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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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You see, for me art's not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.
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Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
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Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
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There's an art to comedy.
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Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls
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At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
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Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.
