Art Quotes
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Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
Ray Bradbury
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I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
Erykah Badu
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The art of politics is knowing what to do next.
James P. Cannon
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I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, "You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here!" And Memphis is like, "Well, you'll get there one day!"
Valerie June
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It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.
Lorde
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I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.
John Mellencamp
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I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.
Val Kilmer
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In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.
Joe Gebbia
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Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.
Kanye West
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I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
Sia LSD
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I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.
Rita Ora
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I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
Hermann Hesse
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When I'm writing comics, I'm also visualizing how the story will look on the page - not even always art-wise, but panel-wise, like how a moment will be enhanced dramatically by simply turning a page and getting a reveal. It requires thinking about story in a way I never had to consider when I was writing prose.
Marjorie Liu
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Art is basically entertainment.
Yasumasa Morimura
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Eric Gill
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I went to an art school in high school and got in a little trouble like you do when you're a teenager and not being closely supervised. I did. I followed the Dead around, and it was fun. It was great. It was kind and sweet and lovely.
Elizabeth Marvel
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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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I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I enjoy the most. I don't even know what the purpose of art is really, I just know that is something that makes me feel satisfied in a way that other things don't. That's all I know, that's why I like to write songs and films or draw. I just like to make things and somehow I find it gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I can't find in other areas of my life.
Sean Lennon
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Art is fun to buy.
Jessica Jackley
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As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.
William Harvey
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Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?
Leos Carax