Art Quotes
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The one question, the one principle, the one crisis in art of the twentieth century centers in the uncompromising 'purity' of art, and in the consciousness that art comes from art only, not from anything else.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.
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Cinema is an art form.
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We know from many experiences that this is what the work of art does: its life - in which we have shared the alien existences both of this world and of that different world to which the work of art alone gives us access - unwillingly accuses our lives.
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I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.
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I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.
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I also found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces.
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In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.
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At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
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The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money or the names. It's all about reflecting my life and my art.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
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Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.
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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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When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.
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All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'
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I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
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Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
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I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
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I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
