Art Quotes
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'I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.'
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In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.
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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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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Acting is just such an incredible art form.
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To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
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Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
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I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
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No one in art has yet penetrated as far as Dostoyevsky into the mystical realms of the soul, towards the metaphysical, the subconsciousness, viewing the external reality of the world as merely a sign, a symbol of the spiritual and metaphysical.
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I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.
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Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.
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Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.
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Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.
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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.
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Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion.
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I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
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I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.
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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 separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society.
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Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls
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It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.
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Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.
