Art Quotes
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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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Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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This is a history, in that it intends to describe what happened and suggest why. … I may have fooled around with a few facts. But I served as witness until as close to the end as anyone could have … and so there is not so much art in this as to make it irrelevant.
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Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.
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One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
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I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
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Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.
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From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.
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A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
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All I want to think about for a couple of months is art. The rest is a waste of time and emotion. So here’s the lovely Annunciation by Antonello de Messina I saw in Syracuse. Antonello was the first great Italian master of oil paints, because Sicily was too damp for fresco.
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No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
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Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
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I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
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If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
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I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.
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All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.
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Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
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Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
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I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I possibly could needed - squash courts and every book you ever would have wanted, every art supply.
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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.
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I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?
