Art Quotes
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It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
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Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.
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I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.
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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
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All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?
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My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.
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Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
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Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
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Pop music is probably the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the general public. The more people buy a record, the more successful it is - not only commercially but artistically.
