Art Quotes
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I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.
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Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.
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I try to conceal art with art.
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Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.
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With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.
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No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.
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Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own.
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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When we separate music from life we get art.
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I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.
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I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.
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Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.
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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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If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.
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What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
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I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.
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I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
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What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?
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Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
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I spend very little time just doing ''art as art.'
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You cannot play for safety and make art.
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I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.
