Art Quotes
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You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
Dev Anand
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Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur Erickson
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
Irving Stone
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
Yoko Ono
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
Q-Tip
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
Questlove
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Walter Hagen
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I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.
Wade Guyton
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
Kate McKinnon
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There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.
Octavia Spencer
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I never thought about doing anything other than making art.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
Don McCullin
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Without electricity, there can be no art.
Nam June Paik
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There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.
Hayden Schlossberg
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I have nothing to teach you that will help you to make a living. as art teacher, advising his students
John French Sloan
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
Harold Ramis
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto
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What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
Kesha
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
Aristotle
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
Harold Prince
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
Halle Berry