Art Quotes
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I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.
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How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.
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When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.
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That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
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Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create 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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All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
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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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When your art fails, make better art.
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What I love about art is that anything is possible. Bees can be pink. Trees can be purple. It's like taking the world as it is and then swirling it around to show how it could be" -Salma
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I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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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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Actors have no color. That's the art form.
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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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In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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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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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
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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.
