Art Quotes
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
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I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
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Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
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Kandinsky points out in his book On the Spiritual in Art that Theosophy (in its true sense; not as it generally appears) is yet another expression of the same spiritual movement which we are now seeing in painting.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
