Art Quotes
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I view art as an inspirational tool.
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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.
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I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.
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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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I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.
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As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
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The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.
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To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.
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If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that's not about making angry decisions, either, it's about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art.
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The art of making art, is putting it together.
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Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.
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Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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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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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of
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Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.
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Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.
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If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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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.
