Art Quotes
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Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
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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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Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
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And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
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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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I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.
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When I'm in New York, my favorite place on the planet is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.
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They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?
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Art penetrates, no matter how many bans you put out.
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Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.
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Every socialistic type of government… produces bad art, produces social inertia, produces really unhappy people, and it's more repressive than any other kind of government.
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The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.
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Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.
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In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.
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Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
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Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.
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I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.
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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
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Tool is not Slayer. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns.
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I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.
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I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt Cobain could.
