Art Quotes
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.
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I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.
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I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.
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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
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Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.
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Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
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I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
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So many of the great songs are written in response to some cataclysmic event. You can't make that happen; it just happens. So you wait for life to happen, and it informs your art. And when life catches you by surprise, that can lead to the best art.
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What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
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They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place.
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I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
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LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.
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It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it.
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Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.
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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
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Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
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The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.
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Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia. (p. 130)
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I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.
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I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.
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It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.
