Art Quotes
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Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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I see a face of love, Fair as sweet music when my heart was strong: Yea - art thou come again to me, great Song?' The face bent over him like silver night In long-remembered summers; that calm light Of days which shine in firmaments of thought, That past unchangeable, from change still wrought.
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
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I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
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I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.
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Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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'The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...'
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The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
