Art Quotes
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Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.
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I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.
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Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
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Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art
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I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.
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The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
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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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Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.
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Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.
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I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.
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Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.
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It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
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Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
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Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
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That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.
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I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.
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If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.
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I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.
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I really believe that women run the art world.
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Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
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Comedy is like music - there are genres and styles for every taste. Katy Perry is there for people who like frothy pop music. Metallica is there for people who like head-banging metal. And Susan Boyle is there for... well, I don't who the hell is listening to that freak of nature, but that's not the point. In art, there's something for everybody.
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A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.
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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
