Art Quotes
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Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display.... The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art.
Gary Saul Morson
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It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.
Raymond Pettibon
Black Flag
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I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
Judy Chicago
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Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.
Sivamani
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I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.
Vincent Price
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Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.
Andrew Jackson Downing
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.
Stephen Gaghan
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Art is the communication of ecstasy.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
Andrea Riseborough
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I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
Vivienne Westwood
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Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.
Agrippina Vaganova
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Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.
Cory Arcangel
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Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
William Morris
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Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
Allison Joseph
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I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
David Ogilvy
