Art Quotes
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I've always loved movies, art and clothes.
Colleen Atwood
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.
Willem de Kooning
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Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
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It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.
Lorde
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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Chuck Close
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We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?
Vance Havner
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If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.
Odd Nerdrum
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Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.
William Herschel
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Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.
Devendra Banhart
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Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
Duane Michals
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning
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Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
Amy Gerstler
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It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
Jerry Saltz
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I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.
Alessandro Michele
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Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
Eli Broad
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When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
Jerry Saltz
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There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
Steve Martin
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Who says that art and science cannot coincide? Art is seen as subjective, and science is seen as objective. Paintings, drawings, and sculptures can contain geometric patterns. Most anything you can mix in a beaker or a Petri dish could be displayed as art. The point is that there is art in science, and there is science in art.
Jen Selinsky
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I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.
David Thewlis
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Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.
Jorge M. Perez
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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.
Christie Brinkley