Art Quotes
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The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.
Delphine Arnault
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To leverage those things that are common to everybody, and to present them in a way that's sort of naked, is more courageous in art than constantly trying to be evasively too cool.
D.A. Wallach
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Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Georges Bizet
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One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially - if they're successful, it's kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it.
Johnny Colt
Train
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I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Larry Rivers
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The motto of his Robinson Jeffers’s work is 'More! More!'-but as Tolstoy says, 'A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion'; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: 'A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.'
Randall Jarrell
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul Cezanne
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Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
Frank Shorter
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What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.
Brendan Gleeson
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I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
Harry Callahan
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Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
James Rosenquist
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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.
Leonard Peikoff
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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
Thom Yorke
Radiohead
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Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
Marc Newson
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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
Alex Grey
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I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.
James McCartney
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My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.
William Shakespeare
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My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.
Kanye West
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in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
Alison Lurie
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Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ...
Kingsley Amis
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
George Bernard Shaw
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It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.
Adrian Younge
