Art Quotes
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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I have a strong art-history background.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
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To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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For two and a half years, I rigorously trained seven to eight hours a day in two disciplines of dance but moved on to the most versatile medium called cinema which encompassed every form of art.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.
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I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.
