Art Quotes
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Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
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There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
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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.
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I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot of personal information about my past or who I am. I would rather the personal side of it just be in the concepts and the genuine feelings that I filter through my work. I know that it's inevitable that people can find whatever they want about me. Once I've had a chance to create a language and a world with my art, then I'm more comfortable sharing that information.
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
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I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.
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Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.
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How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?
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I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.
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Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism as, say, the robotic machines.
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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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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
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Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
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In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
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What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.
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Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?
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I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.
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One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
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There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
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I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.
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Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.
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When I was 18, I began attending college for art and design, and I designed all sorts of things from furniture to industrial designs and even watches.
