Art Quotes
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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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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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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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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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With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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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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I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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Teach the art of living well.
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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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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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Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.
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I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
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Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
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I have this old-fashioned idea that art and commerce are at war.
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Art is a personal act of courage.
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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
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Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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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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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
