Art Quotes
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A lot of TV can be linear and cinematic and formulaic. What's to say that people can't be creative and surreal - and push boundaries? You can look at a piece of art and not necessarily know what it means or what the artist intended by it. It's the effect it has on you.
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Early in life, Duveen...noticed that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money, and his entire astonishing career was the product of that simple observation.
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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.
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I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.
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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
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Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?
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The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
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Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.
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I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.
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The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me.
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That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.
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In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.
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There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
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There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.
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The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.
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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
