Art Quotes
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I became an entrepreneur as a child. I liked the art of the deal whether I was mowing lawns or selling candy or promoting clubs at the age of 16. I understood early on the importance of knowing my numbers and surrounding myself with the best people.
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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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I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
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I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the most resonance for me. As a person, it has to be the plucky Clara Bow, the heroine of American silent movies of the 1920s. She embodied feminine dressing mixed with men's style. All this then evolved into the exquisite style and simplicity of Coco Chanel.
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
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Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20
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A lack of methodology in Upper Palaeolithic art research has led to confusion of priorities.
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I've never liked to conceptualize too much about fashion, like it was art or science, which it is not. But it's nice when there's a clear idea behind a collection.
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Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
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I don't think of myself as having any freedom when it comes to how 'Monstress' is structured and how the story is going because a comic book has to be even more tightly structured than a novel, because there is no room for mistakes. Once the art is done, the art is done.
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I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately this form of expression and decided to limit the production of 'ready-mades' to a small number yearly. I was aware at that time, that for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my 'ready-mades' against such contamination.
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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
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Music - special magic that communicates feelings and sensitivities that are human and what is so wonderful about the art. Let your kids get involved in the arts and study this workshop of human sensitivities, sadness, joy, happiness and aware of sadness and joy and happiness in their lives.
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What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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I hate art auctions.
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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
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My dad is an art director for BBC TV shows, and my mum does screen printing workshops. Both of my parents played instruments, too, and my mum used to have crazy house parties when me and my brother were young - dub and garage would be banging through my house.
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I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.
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Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.
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Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
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Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.
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Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.
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..Every work of art is a transposition,a caricature,the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.
