Art Quotes
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Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
Bruno Bettelheim
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I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.
Frida Giannini
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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.
Boyd Holbrook
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I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.
David Ramsey
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I've been interested in art and fashion for as long as I can remember because they are so visual. I am fascinated by the idea of visual creation from the ground up, which is a challenge in ballet when the audience has seen every show of yours, every other principal that you've shared a role with, and every different production.
David Hallberg
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There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.
Frans de Waal
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If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.
Kathleen Kennedy
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
David McCullough
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Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.
Corita Kent
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To understand the ‘wounded men’ of Upper Palaeolithic art, I now consider somatic hallucinations; these include attenuation of the body and limbs, polymelia (having extra limbs or digits), and, the one on which I focus, pricking and stabbing sensations.
David Lewis-Williams
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I want to work in art forever.
Dasha Zhukova
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
Emile Zola
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What is art but the denial of life?
Fernando Pessoa
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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.
David Shields
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Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do, and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do.
Jet Li
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Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
Max Bill
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France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
Raoul Dufy
