Art Quotes
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Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
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I created my own concept art and went in and did a 90-minute presentation that cost me a lot of money.And, the great thing is though, when I got the job, they had to buy all of it from me, because one of the set pieces in the middle of the movie was the scene I wrote, and they needed to own everything because a lot of it ended up being the movie we made, so I got all my money back. I was committed. I was going to outspend every competing director.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. I don't give a damn for the group, the community, the masses, and so forth.
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The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
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All art requires courage.
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Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.
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Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
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I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. All that sort of stuff reminds you to stay true to the essence of what art is about.
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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.
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Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
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No great work of art is ever finished.
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Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a connection to art which is 4,000 years old.
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It's clever, but is it Art?
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The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.
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To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
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Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.
