Art Quotes
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I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.
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When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked like concept art for 'BoJack.' It's kind of uncanny.
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'Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.''It’s a lost art,' Hank said. 'Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it.'
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Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
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Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.
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At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
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Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
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Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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I love art; I collect mostly modern art.
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The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing.
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I got married, which opened me up to a whole new way of feeling about life, which in turn reflected on the way I do my art, you know.
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You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.
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I think the idea of art kills creativity.
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An honest curator will admit that judgement is fallible, especially for art made yesterday.
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Art makes people smile, brings people together.
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The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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There's really an art form to putting together a set list that flows evenly and that takes you on a ride and doesn't feel disjointed.
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Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!
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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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There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.
