Art Quotes
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Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
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Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.
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Fautrier's exhibition in Paris 1945 made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.
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My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
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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 realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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The world as a sense, independent of the image, of the idea - this is the essence of the content of art. My square is not an image, just as a switch or socket are not the current. - Malevich
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.
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Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
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The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
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Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.
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Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.
