Art Quotes
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The story might sound like common gossip when told by another person, but in the mouth of a storyteller, gossip was art.
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Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of depth. I'm sure this is true in some cases, but on the whole I can't accept this as a vision of art. There's something so cynical about assuming your audience is unintelligent or that artists shouldn't care about their viewers.
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The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann; Kathleen Blackshear because she taught a class called design - I can't remember, design something, and in this class - it met once a week - we would do work centered around some theme, word or subject or technique or whatever, and bring it in for a three-hour discussion. And Kathleen was able, in watching and looking at our work, to direct us to all kinds of things which might relate to what we were trying to do, but she never attempted to tell us what to do.
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Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
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My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much traditional art.
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Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.
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We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.
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Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.
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One thing that's important for a performer to understand is the difference between art and entertainment.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
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A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.
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Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
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The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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They firmly believe it to be the sole function of art to minister to their personal comfort — as upholstery does.
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We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand.
