Art Quotes
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For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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The idea of taking up art as a calling, a profession, is a mirage. Art enriches life. It makes life worth living. But to make a living at it-that idea is incompatible with making art.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I always thought of words as art supplies.
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A many-colored light flows from our sun; Art, 'neath its beams a motley thread has spun; The prison modifies the perfect day; But thou hast known such mediums to shun, And cast once more on life a pure white ray. Absorbed in the creations of thy mind, Forgetting daily self, my truest friend I find.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.
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Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.
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There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?
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It's a waste to not say anything with art.
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What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
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By Suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
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I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.
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No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
