Art Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Humble Inquiry is the skill and the art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not already know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person.
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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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I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
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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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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.
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History is as much an art as a science.
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Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.
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The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
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We have to remind people how important arts are. People just don't see it.
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Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
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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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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
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Actors have no color. That's the art form.
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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
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There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.
