Art Quotes
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I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
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Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.
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Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.
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I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.
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Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock.
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Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.
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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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Teach the art of living well.
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O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
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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, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
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Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.
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The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been on class war theme. It's been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are. They may have guns and pepper spray and helicopters and F16s and the whole U.S. military on their side, but when it comes down to it, we still have the numbers.
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The relationship between government and art must necessarily be a delicate one. It would not be appropriate for the government to try to define what is good or what is true or what is beautiful. But government can provide nourishment to the ground within which these ideas spring forth from the seeds of inspiration within the human mind.
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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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There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.
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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
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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 a personal act of courage.
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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
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Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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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.
