Art Quotes
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I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
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When I'm writing comics, I'm also visualizing how the story will look on the page - not even always art-wise, but panel-wise, like how a moment will be enhanced dramatically by simply turning a page and getting a reveal. It requires thinking about story in a way I never had to consider when I was writing prose.
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I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.
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It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.
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We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.
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When art wins, everyone wins.
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We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses.
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When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
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Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
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You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
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Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
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My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.
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Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.
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Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
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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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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.
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With the precision of a hummingbird's heart Was the lord of the monarch butterflies One-time ruler of the world of art
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For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.
