Art Quotes
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I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.
Tina Weymouth
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I believe in art that conceals art.
Rita Mae Brown
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I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
Arsene Wenger
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You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho
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The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
William James
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You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.
John Ruskin
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So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design or predict. Which is great. That's what you want art to be. You want it to be alive and to actually have a life in the way it's viewed.
Steve Zissis
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The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
Willem Dafoe
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We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to survive - as opposed to domesticated animals that we depend on. Would it radically change things if we had more rhinos in our midst? I kind of suspect it would.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
Ansel Adams
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Management is not a science, it is an art.
Michael Eisner
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All I owe the world is my art.
Sherman Alexie
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Art is the consciousness of currency.
Andrew Lakey
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When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.
Eric Drooker
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The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
Claire Messud
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I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.
Eleanor Coppola
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If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
Bill Jay
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
David Bowie
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I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.
William Shakespeare
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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
H. G. Wells
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Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity. (p. 18)
Marshall McLuhan
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I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.
Sofia Coppola
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The purpose of art is delectation.
Nicolas Poussin
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The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
Ray Bradbury