Art Quotes
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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.
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I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.
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As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some 'they' is manipulating 'us', using, among other dark arts, advertising.
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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Because one of two things happen: Either you have to kind of unsharpen your fangs because you can't be quite as cruel to people to their face as you are behind their backs... Or you don't defang, and those guests get the word and they stop coming.
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Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.
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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from high school, I went to the Chicago Art Institute, and it was there that I thought, well, now I'm going to be a painter.
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Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.
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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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Art is what we do when we're truly alive.
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Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
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Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.
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When we finished training with my wife we came to St. Paul, because St. Paul was the first place where we got a job offer and we needed some sort of a job to earn some money in order to set up our own studio. It's rather ironic that this job offer came originally through the Walker Art Center.
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Actors have no color. That's the art form.
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The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
