Art Quotes
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Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
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Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
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Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.
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I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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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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There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.
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In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
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I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
