Art Quotes
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I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
Yayoi Kusama
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If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
Jessye Norman
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
Wendell Berry
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There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
Louis Leakey
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Yoko Ono
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Vanessa Mae
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater
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Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
Albert Camus
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
Natalie Babbitt
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
Laurance Rockefeller
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom
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I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.
Alia Shawkat
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
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I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.
Jason Momoa
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In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.
Andy Warhol
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Oscar Wilde
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Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
Amber Valletta
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
F. Sionil Jose
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
Queen Latifah
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously... you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute... HA! I looked hot as a chick!
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
F. Sionil Jose
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
Maggie Nelson