Art Quotes
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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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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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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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If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.
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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 consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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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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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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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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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.
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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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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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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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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
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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 cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
