Art Quotes
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Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
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What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so much created as they are produced, with the producer-director becoming the star and the controlling force of much that was in other hands at other times.
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Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.
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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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I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental.
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I have perfected the art of the mean song to make me feel like I have a backbone.
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Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.
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In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.
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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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If it's correct to say that there is a closing of minds around the world, story is one of the most powerful agents of reviving the conversation between ideas. Ultimately, that's all stories are trying to do - open the conversation. They cannot give a proscription. It's not clairvoyant art.
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I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.
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Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
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More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.
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Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.
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Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.
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A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.
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We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.
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I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
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During the last 35 years, the artists multiplied, the public grew enormously, the economy exploded, and so-called contemporary art became fashionable. All these parameters changed the art world form its previous aspects and fundamentals - the explosion of museums and institutions, explosion of Biennales and Triennials, explosion of money, explosion of interest, explosion of artists, explosion of countries interested in contemporary exhibitions, explosion of the public. Not to see that is to be more than blind.
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Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
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The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators. (p. 205)
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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.
