Art Quotes
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
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Art will never be able to exist without nature.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
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I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.
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Making movies, even though it's a business, is also an art, and sometimes you don't hit the bull's-eye.
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There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.
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I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.
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Sex and art are the same thing.
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I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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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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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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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
