Art Quotes
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In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?
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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.
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One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.
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Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.
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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
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I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
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I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.
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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
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I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.
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Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.
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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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Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.
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I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.
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One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.
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The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
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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.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.
