Art Quotes
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Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
Ali Smith
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Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
Andrew Brown
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Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.
Gabrielle Roth
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For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
William Shakespeare
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When real work happens and that's when real art happens.
Devendra Banhart
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And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?
Joanne Rowling
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My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.
Jill Scott
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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.
Lucille Clifton
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I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
Marina Abramovic
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I want to create work that extends beyond myself because I always thought it was a way to change the general rules about art, and also to give an impulse to something else. It's a transformation about attitude. Most of the time, when someone buys the object, it's 100 percent transferred to them. I don't think this is true. Something exists within the object that can never be appropriated. This little part, I try to make it visible.
Daniel Buren
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Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.
Fred Tomaselli
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Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.
Abe Ajay
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There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.
Paul Sparks
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
Seth Godin
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
William Penn
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London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.
William Dunbar
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The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be loud dive bar, small theatre, festival is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.
Sarah Burton
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I had never really thought about acting as art. You know, growing up in Youngstown, the Rust Belt of the world, it was always just a form of entertainment. Finally seeing it as an art form, I fell in love with it. So I moved out to California, never having visited before.
Chris Zylka
