Art Quotes
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I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
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Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
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As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.
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Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
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Writers are idiots with Underwoods.
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Art history is littered with work that involves light.
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I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays and the music - it's done; the material is there. But we talk about it because it's part of the game. I'm comfortable with it.
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There's nothing wrong with using the money that you earn to be daring and buy art that you love or that you think is beautiful.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.
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Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
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I've taken a lot of risks through the years, but I always followed my instincts and always explored new opportunities. The biggest reward has been having an idea and being able to make it a reality. My passions always lead the way - travel and adventure, fitness, art, and home.
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works. Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life.
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We took a very interesting journey from being really extreme art house filmmakers. But we find that working in commercial filmmaking and creating a brand on that high level affords us a lot of interesting opportunities.
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The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
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The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.
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Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.. .The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm.
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I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.
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Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
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Cinema is an art form.
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I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
