Art Quotes
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The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why I was doing an art movie, and I would just tell them that, 'You know, what's the big deal, it's a movie.' I'm so glad that's a thing of the past.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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I have lots of different interests. Any of my friends will know I'm interested both in science and in art.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
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The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
