Art Quotes
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Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was media art, which made it possible to express things directly, without having to rely on the written word, which was manipulated by men.
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Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
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Entertainment and art are not isolated.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art collective called Faile. They're from Brooklyn and make these prints of beautiful women.
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I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
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My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!
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I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it's hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.
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Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.
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Life is short and the art long.
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I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.
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What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
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I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.
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A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.
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Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its ‘manner,’ in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.
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In his later works Doesburg tried to destroy static expression by diagonal position of his lines. But in this way the feeling of physic equilibrium which is necessary to enjoy a work of art is lost.
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Trash has given us an appetite for art.
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In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.
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I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.
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Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
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I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.
