Art Quotes
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Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.
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It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
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I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.
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You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry.
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Music is reflection of self.
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I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.
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Art has no end but its own perfection.
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I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.
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I'm an excuse for medical experiments and art theory. You must get me out of here and out of the hospital.
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So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
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An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
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My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like that. I think I learned so much from him.
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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'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
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Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.
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Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my art for my life. I’ve always said dance is the breath made visible. That covers about everything because once you stop breathing and the breath is no longer visible, you stop moving.
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The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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The art was just a way of hooking people in, saying: "Hey, maybe there's something cool about the tenant meeting. If the picture's really cool and weird, maybe I should check this out." And I think all of my art has really developed out of that realization.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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My parting words are I’m excited for what’s next. It’s easy for me to sit over a 20 year career and say what I’ve done right or what I’ve done wrong but, I ultimately I have a perspective that’s very clear and educated on an art form.
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When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.
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I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.
