Art Quotes
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Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
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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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It is the same with art. Art will become the product of another duality in man: the product of a cultivated externality and of an inwardness deepened and more conscious. As a pure representation of the human mind, art will express itself in an aesthetically purified, that is to say, abstract form.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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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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I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.
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Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.
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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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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
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What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
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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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Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet,From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so,Who art not missed by any that entreat.
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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.
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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
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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.
