Art Quotes
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.
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All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Greatness in art is always a by-product.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.