Art Quotes
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
George Bernard Shaw
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
Pablo Picasso
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My views have changed as much as the world, and more precisely, the world of art. You have to remember that all my criticisms of the institution were done directly from the world I was in and my analysis of it. Many things that I said about the omnipotence of the museums, for example, are today almost obsolete. In fact, the museum and the institution drastically lost their power by the pure fact that they disseminated by thousands around the world.
Daniel Buren
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A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.
Jerry Saltz
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The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art a great deal. We don't have a lot of money, so we have works on paper, but we enjoy them a great deal.
Eric Kandel
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Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
Ole Hallesby
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I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
Erykah Badu
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An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.
Carl Andre
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Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
Jerry Saltz
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The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
