Art Quotes
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First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
Marina Abramovic
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What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
Kesha
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I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
Jay-Z
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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Leo Tolstoy
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All of the designs on Minted are crowd-sourced from a global community of independent designers. We hold monthly design and art challenges that anyone in the world is welcome to enter.
Mariam Naficy
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Carlo Ponti
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
Nate Lowman
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
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I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.
Bette Midler
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. Forster
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Andre Breton
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon
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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.
Damien Chazelle
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The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay.
Jane Leavy
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The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
Edward Young
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I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.
Ray Davies
The Kinks
