Art Quotes
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My wedding dress is a piece of art that I'll treasure forever. It was designed and created by Zac Posen. I gave him only the tiniest bit of direction when he started, and the end product was more beautiful than anything I could have imagined.
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.
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Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.
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When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.
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Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
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In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.
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I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
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You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
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I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art form.
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'Attaboys' help people. I am huge on attaboy. Confidence is the great ingredient to living and art, with fidelity to self. It's so important to surround yourself with people who give you confidence.
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Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.
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I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.
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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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Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.
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Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.
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The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
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As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.
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You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.
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I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.
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I paused, watching the swallows; for they seemed to me the symbol, in their swift, sure curvetting, all daring and balance and surprise, of the delicate poise and motion of Art, that visits no two men alike, in a world where no two things of all the things there be, are quite the same.
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I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.
