Art Quotes
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Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
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In art the Chinese aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.
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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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There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.
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I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.
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Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
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Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.
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I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.
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The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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I don't need any crutches in order to concentrate. As a child I learned that you must be ready because I'd be yelled at more than other people and it would always be my fault. I learned that to be professional is your number-one priority. The art comes second. You learn that, in order to give your best performance, you have to be a good technician, which means never allowing negative influences affect your performance.
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There is a certain vulnerability to creating art and putting it out in the world for the first time, but again, there's a kind of thrill to that as well.
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I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'
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My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
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I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project to project. I think my art has become more accomplished, although I try to keep it from becoming slick or superficial.
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There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
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Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
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One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.
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All truly great art is propaganda.
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
