Art Quotes
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The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.
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We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.
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My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.
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Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.
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I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.
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The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.
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Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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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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For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.
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I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.
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Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
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Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.
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Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.
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Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?
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To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
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I think that's beautiful when you also find contradictions, or you find ambiguity with your character. Ambiguity is a good word in the world of art.
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It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.
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Art is for everybody.
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But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.
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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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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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Art to be art must soothe.
