Art Quotes
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The idea of taking up art as a calling, a profession, is a mirage. Art enriches life. It makes life worth living. But to make a living at it-that idea is incompatible with making art.
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What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet,From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so,Who art not missed by any that entreat.
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Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
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Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
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I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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Without electricity, there can be no art.
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Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I've done are iconic.
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I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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I'll never forget my first Art Basel.
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Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
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It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
