Art Quotes
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When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.
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The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.
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It's hard to make great art when you've got too much pressure.
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Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.
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Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.
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What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.
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What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
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There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.
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I sell a lot of them at Art on Easy Street.
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I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.
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Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
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Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.
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Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
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For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
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Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.
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Visionary art sure has played a vital role in my own "soul's journey," and I would say it's been important for many artists and viewers throughout history. Visionary art is one of the primary ways that human contact with higher subtle dimensions gets translated into our communally shared physical dimension.
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O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena
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I think 21st century should be art without objects.
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I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.
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I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.
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Cars for me are like a piece of art.
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I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
