Art Quotes
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.
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Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.
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Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
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Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work.
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Art never expresses anything but itself.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.
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If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.
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In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.
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Nature is the art of God.
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Art is born of humiliation.
