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.
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Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.
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I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
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People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.
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All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
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I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.
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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.
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The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
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In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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.
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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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I think art breaks down otherness.
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I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
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Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.
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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
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Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.
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Leigh Bowery was actually quoted as saying, "Flesh is my most favorite fabric." I've seen many a freak make a scene and go, but Leigh was a special kind of exhibitionist because he was dedicated and saw it as an art form.
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I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
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I've told older friends to pick up the guitar because it's a great way to express yourself. It's not all about making money: it's about creating art and working with other people. It's a journey, and it's a really fun thing to do.
