Art Quotes
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Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.
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All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I think that's because our current religion is capitalism. Capitalism has the functions of patronage, commissions, control of content, bestowing of space, elevation of certain artists over others based on how much they pander to people in power, the determination of value of the work, all of it. Capitalism commissions artwork now, the market.
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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
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The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.
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At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
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Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
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I feel a kinship to the idea of beloved stories and beloved pieces of art that we can imagine in different ways and sort of take a meta approach in terms of what those stories offer us.
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If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something human-made with materials; that is, it is made of us. Art is life. And yet it is distinct from 'life.' Art is life's counterpoint. We make it, and in that making, art is pointedly not life. It is just made of us.
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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
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I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.
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But it was all nothing and that was the artistic expression: Nothing. And nothing can be art. And more than that, nothing is the best art.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
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I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.
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It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.
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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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The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.
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There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.
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It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.
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Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
