Art Quotes
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I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.
August Wilson
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Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
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I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
Jill Soloway
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There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.
Philip Johnson
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I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or some kind of teaching of art, because I feel like art is a more free area in school than music is. I feel like music is too mathematic for me. Music school's so hard. It's math.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
William S. Burroughs
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An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Frank Gehry
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O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
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The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.
Carole Maso
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Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.
Jean Dubuffet
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I don't like hype cluttering art.
Sonny John Moore
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Illustration is commercial. It's work that we produce, and I think what you can do is you can draw from the pool of art, but most of it comes from a pool of knowledge.
Brian Stelfreeze
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Thinking in art and morals and even mathematics is neither the reflection in consciousness of a mechanical order in the brain nor the tracing with the mind’s eye of some empirical order in its object, but an endeavour to realize in thought an ideal order which would satisfy an inner demand. The nearer thought comes to its goal, the more it finds itself under constraint by that goal, and dominated in its creative effort by aesthetic or moral or logical relevance. These relations of relevance are not physical or psychological relations. They are normative relations that can enter into the mental current because that current is . . . teleological. Their operation marks the presence of a different type of law, which supervenes upon physical and psychological laws when purpose takes control.
Brand Blanshard
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I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.
Ed Kowalczyk
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I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
James Broughton
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My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
Craig Brown
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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Pablo Picasso