Art Quotes
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan
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When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
Jerry Saltz
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I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.
Leander Paes
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Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression. Now you take the weapon and run with it.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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Art penetrates, no matter how many bans you put out.
Mawra Hocane
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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.
Jennifer Chiaverini
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We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
Lili Taylor
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Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.
Leonard Baskin
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I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.
Erykah Badu
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To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
William Friedkin
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There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.
Kurt Elling
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
Christina Aguilera
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When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.
Arne Jacobsen
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At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.
Carmelo Anthony
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Through the last few decades it the art object has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.
Ashley Bickerton
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One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.
S. N. Goenka
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Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.
Charles Saatchi
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Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."
Paul Gauguin
