Art Quotes
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Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.
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I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.
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Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.
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I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
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God made thee good as thou art beautiful.
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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
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I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
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I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.
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All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.
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All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
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That all differences among the former Brücke members should be put in the past and that ..every individual conflict must be silenced and that everyone join together in the name of the whole, that is for our modern German art.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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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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Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.
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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.
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The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
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Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.
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In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.
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I view art as an inspirational tool.
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I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the experiences themselves - might become material for art. This kind of transformation shows up a lot in 10:04 because the book tracks the transposition of fact into fiction in the New Yorker stor.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
