Art Quotes
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I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They're sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they're also kind of ready-mades.
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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
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For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
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I struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me.
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There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.
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I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
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The Greek 'point of view' in both art and chronology has little in common with ours but was much like that of the Middle Ages. (p. 64)
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If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
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What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?
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Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?
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I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
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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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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
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Space is the breath of art.
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
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It's hard to make great art when you've got too much pressure.
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Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things.
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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile. L'objet d'art, par définition, est le crocodile empaillé. (Source: Alfred Jarry, Selected Works, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Cape, London, 1965).
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I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.
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don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.
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The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.
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The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.
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In the Year 2000 the discovery of extraterrestrial life will create a revolution in science, art, and pornography.
