Art Quotes
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
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In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. … A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. … A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out. …
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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.
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I'm a huge art buff.
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I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.
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I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
