Art Quotes
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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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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I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
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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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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.
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Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.
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I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).
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If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.
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Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.
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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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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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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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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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The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.
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A good piece of art raises questions.
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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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Art is what we do when we're truly alive.
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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
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The art of making art, is putting it together.
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
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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.
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The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.
