Art Quotes
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Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's like food - if you're not eating it, you're doing something wrong. If they're not dancing, something is wrong.
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I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.
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As an artist, I will always give art more importance and preference than pure entertainment.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.
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The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
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I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
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When I say 'art healed me,' it really healed me!
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I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.
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The word 'star' is misused. A good film will never fail. And if you have become an actor to become a star, then your reason of being in this profession is wrong. It amounts to abusing the art.
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I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.
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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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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
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I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.
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Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.
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I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
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Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.
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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
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Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.
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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
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Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.
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The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
