Art Quotes
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The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.
Buck Owens
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
Daniel Boulud
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
James Montgomery
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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.
Jean-Luc Godard
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
Jackie DeShannon
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music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.
Emma Orczy
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There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?
Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
Iggy Azalea
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
Warren Farrell
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Well, art has to be sexy.
Wade Guyton
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An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
Al-Farabi
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Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
Don McCullin
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Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
Ad Reinhardt
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
Patrick Marber
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Surprise is key in all art.
Oscar Niemeyer
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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.
Irvine Welsh
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Jack Bowman
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
Alexander Theroux
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Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.
Adolf Hitler
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Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
Joseph Beuys
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb