Art Quotes
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I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
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Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
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Dealers claim that women artists are not as salable as men, that they are a poor investment. We know that there are few women art collectors, a fact which may have an impact on the market.
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All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
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You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
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Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
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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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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
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The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
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I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
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When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.
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I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
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Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art.
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Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
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The best of any artist is in their art.
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Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
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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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Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn't state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.
