Art Quotes
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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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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.
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I think art breaks down otherness.
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I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't matter what the film is about, or even whether it's a narrative or figurative film at all, it's an invitation to step into somebody else's shoes. Even if it's the filmmaker's shoes filming a landscape, you go into somebody else's shoes and you look out of their lens, you look out of their eyes and their imagination. That's what going to the pictures is all about.
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Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.
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Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.
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Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...
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Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.
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I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
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The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.
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Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.
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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there.
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A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.
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Refinement is a sign of a deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
