Art Quotes
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Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.
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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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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
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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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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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We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?
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A work of art is a renewable source of energy.
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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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Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.
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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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Art is a personal act of courage.
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Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
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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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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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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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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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Teach the art of living well.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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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.
