Art Quotes
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'
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Timing has a lot to with art.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.
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I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
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When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!
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We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
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I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.
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We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.
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Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.
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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.
