Art Quotes
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The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and in this regard it was a form of manipulation too. Subsequently, we've had to engage with a lot of things that we used to disavow as manipulation. We can't just dismiss everything as manipulations anymore, since the alternatives are constructions, too. From our perspective, from this corner of the planet, we have to admit that it's all constructed. There is absolutely no nature. Nature is one of the biggest constructions.
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I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful.
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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
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People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.
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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
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As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.
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For me, art is like a big support group, where you go and meet people who think the same way, and you go, 'Okay, I'm not nuts.'
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Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
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Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
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Dear William Shakespeare. I am a 14 year old and I’m queer like you. I’m learning art. I wanted to be a queer artist like Leonardo or Michaelangelo. But I like Francis Bacon best I read Alan Ginsberg, Rimbaud. I like Tchaikovsky, if I make films I will make them like Eisenstein, Murnau, Pasolini, Visconti. Love from Derek.
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Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
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From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.
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Ledger art represents a spirit which has lasted through the hardships and turmoil. It is my goal and ambition that this style of pictograph art continues to pay tribute to the perseverance of my ancestors who adapted and created works of art during a period of life changing turmoil and injustice.
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Art is not an end but a beginning.
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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
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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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I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
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From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
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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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Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.
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To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
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The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.
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Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.
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The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
