Art Quotes
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I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
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Art thou angry with him whose arm-pits stink? art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? What good will this anger do thee?
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Fatherland before everything, art afterward.
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On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
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In my generation, we sort of let the art speak for itself. We don't disclose our personal private lives.
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No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.
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I prefer to make my own coffee at home because I love the experience of measuring out the beans and finding the right grind setting, messing with water amounts, etc. It's truly an art form, and I'm obsessed with it. In L.A., I love Blue Bottle and Intelligentsia and used to hang at Bru in Los Feliz.
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I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.
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Selling art is a lot different than making it.
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Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.
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Art thy not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it? Just as if the eye demanded recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose... so also is man formed by nature to acts of benevolence.
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Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'
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In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists
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Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.
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One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
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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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I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.
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Art is a continuum.
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If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
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This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.
