Art Quotes
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One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
Uta Hagen
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock
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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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Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
Jerry Saltz
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One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.
Chris Jordan
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
Leonardo da Vinci
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'Connor
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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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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina
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Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.
David Dobkin
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My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.
Emily Rose
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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.
Yves Tanguy
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
J. August Richards
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The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.
H. G. Wells
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You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.
James Baldwin
