Art Quotes
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To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
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Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.
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Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device.
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On The Sea being filmed It's not a blockbuster and it's not going to earn half a billion in the first weekend, but it's a work of art and I'm very pleased with it.
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Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
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People who aren't artists don't think about creativity and art; they think about money.
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.
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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
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I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general.
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I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.
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Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.
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There is nothing that art cannot express.
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Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani, is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.
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Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.
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Martial art has always been my first love.
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The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
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I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.
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Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.
