Art Quotes
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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The idea that things can be serious minded but must be somehow balkanized in the art-house ghetto is very upsetting because I think it limits not just the audience who was already going to see it, but those who might have had their tastes developed at a younger age.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.
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I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.
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I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world.
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The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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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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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
