Art Quotes
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I used to think fashion was silly, and now I think it can be one of the purest expressions of art.
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I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a high school art class with a C is wondrous, especially considering the creative license we were encouraged to use to, for lack of a better axiom, color outside the lines.
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To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
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My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.
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I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therapeutic.
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I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.
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If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
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Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
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There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!
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Even as bad actors cannot sing alone, but only in chorus: so some cannot walk alone. Man, if thou art aught, strive to walk alone and hold converse with yourself, instead of skulking in the chorus! at length think; look around thee; bestir thyself, that thou mayest know who thou art! (103).
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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In the West, we avoid painful encounters with art by trivialising it, or by familiarising it. Our present obsession with the past has the double advantage of making new work seem raw and rough compared to the cosy patina of tradition, whilst refusing tradition its vital connection to what is happening now.
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We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.
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What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
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I've never said, 'I live for art.'
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All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.
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For me, I see filmmaking as art.
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Memory, prophecy and fantasy the past, the future and the dreaming moment between are all one country, living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.
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I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.
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Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.
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I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.
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All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.
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I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
