Art Quotes
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The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
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Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
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The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
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Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.
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Attention! Attention! Attention! Thou art aware of the situation!
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... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
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Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
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The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.
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I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
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All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
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Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.
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Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
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In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.
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The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.
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Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.
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I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
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Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.
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I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.
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Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
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Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
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When I'm writing the text for a book like 'Little White Rabbit,' I read it aloud, alone, in my studio, again and again and again - because the rhythm has to be exactly right. After I get my manuscript to the point where I think it is perfect, I begin to think about what I want the art to look like.
