Art Quotes
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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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.
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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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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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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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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
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Yoga is an art and science of living.
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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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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
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Sex and art are the same thing.
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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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There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
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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.
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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 believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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'You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do (the) same for others'
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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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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The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
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I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for the truth. Working on paintings is a process toward my artistic creation. It is a new spiritual theme of my whole philosophy for pursuing the truth. Each painting represents a process in all of my art.
