Art Quotes
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Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.
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How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?
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Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.
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Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
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The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.
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Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability
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I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation. My sense of space and material has a lot to do with having been a chicken-killer and working with cows.
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Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.
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I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.
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Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.
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The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.
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Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
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I’m not as cool as you think I think I might be – and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art’s kind of important, too.
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The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25.
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Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.
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Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
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I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.
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We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words
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Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
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Watch and enjoy Mixed Martial Arts, and if some people are thinking about doing it, they must be very careful and think about enrolling in training first, they must make a thoughtful decision before actually doing it.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
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At the Third Wave Foundation, we were asking questions like, "How can we get more voters registered who support our issues?" or "How do we want to give away of money so that it has the greatest impact?" But, the poems were involved in questions of feeling whole, negotiating sexual trauma, and speaking to what has been lost forever. I've always been a person who feels most energized when I am both creating art and working toward social change, but I often have difficulty talking about the two in the same breath.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
