Art Quotes
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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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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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I think good art does come from a dark place.
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Art is what we do when we're truly alive.
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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 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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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.
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Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.
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The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
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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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Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
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A good piece of art raises questions.
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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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A work of art is a renewable source of energy.
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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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"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
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Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
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It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.
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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
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The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
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I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.
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As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!
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Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock.
