Art Quotes
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People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.
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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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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.
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Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation. (p. 77)
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No arts, no letters - no society.
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L'art d'enseigner n'est que l'art d'éveiller la curiosité des jeunes âmes pour la satisfaire ensuite.
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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.
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My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.
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The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.
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Art is the absence of fear.
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We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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Art serves to establish community. It links us with others and with the things around us, in a shared vision and effort.
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The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
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If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.
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Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own.
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Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.
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A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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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.
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I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.
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There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
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Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
