Art Quotes
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That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
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I collect candy packaging from around the world and believe it has the value of Pop Art.
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Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
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I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
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I need art around me always.
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It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.
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Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
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When people still talk about art that I made in the 60's- most of them never saw it, and they never lived through it, and they don't have a clue about it. The idea that they know what minimalism is is absurd. I don't know what minimalism is!
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I've spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel 'Empire' is helping to reprogram us back to that place where we pay attention and invest emotionally in the records and the artists.
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I want to touch on every form of art and be the best at it and be the biggest at it.
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There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.
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I've always been interested in martial arts.
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The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
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The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.
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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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On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: "Royalty, heroism, and the streets.
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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
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Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.
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I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.
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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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The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators. (p. 205)
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Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.
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Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
