Art Quotes
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
David Bailey
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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
Allen Tate
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Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home: Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
Donald Judd
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I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because it's part of my journey.
Delphine Arnault
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It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.
Vance Palmer
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.
Jerry Saltz
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No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could firgive? But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything. You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, "Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are revealed!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My go-go dancing was not your typical go-go dancing: I really was doing performance art. I would do dramatic, elaborate lyricals across the bar. I learned a lot, actually, as an artist during that time.
Annaleigh Ashford
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Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller.
Khalid
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Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.
Oliver Emberton
