Art Quotes
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
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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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In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.
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I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.
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And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Yoga is an art and science of living.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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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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The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.
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When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
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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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Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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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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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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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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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.
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My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
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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.
