Art Quotes
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I never intended to make art.
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There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.
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Presume not that I am the thing I was.
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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
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A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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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.
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Each one of these bodies art-works which Arp made certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name.
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I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.
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I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the 'best' American higher criticism.
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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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Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.
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You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
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I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.
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I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.
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Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.
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The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.
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My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work was just drawings. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of punk scene. They weren't about punk. They were just collections of drawings, some of which I xeroxed and sold.
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The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.
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The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
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You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
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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.
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Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
