Art Quotes
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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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O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.
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Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.
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Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
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I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.
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Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.
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'We Are Pop Culture' is my clothing line for women that started with just T-shirts. The clothing line is urban street wear. It's for women that feel confident in their own skin and want to express themselves. The whole idea is to play with modern pop culture and previous pop culture using art and sayings.
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I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
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Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heartFrom its present pathway part not!Being everything which now thou art,Be nothing which thou art not.So with the world thy gentle ways,Thy grace, thy more than beauty,Shall be an endless theme of praise,And love - a simple duty.
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I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
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Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.
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And from the point of view of art there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. That those lies are necessary to our mental selves is beyond any doubt, as it is through them that we form our aesthetic point of view of life. (Paris 1923)
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Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
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Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
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I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.
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Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.
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Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
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I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
