Art Quotes
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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 have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.
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I think, even when I was little, there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist. My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
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I struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me.
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You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.
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Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
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The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
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Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
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Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.
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Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in the essay is more like a perspective, an angle of vision, a complicating factor, a questioning presence. I don't sit on the sidelines or pretend to objectivity; and I'm not afraid to stick my neck out or to be revealing and vulnerable.
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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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Space is the breath of art.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
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You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
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The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art
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I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
