Art Quotes
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Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.
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The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
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I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.
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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.
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Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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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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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Nature constantly imitates art.
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing. Once I get out of bed and get into my art room, I start painting. I'm there. And I'm doing it.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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My art has no object, no image, no point of focus.
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When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
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To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant dedication and diligence, as well as removing yourself at least occasionally from your own comfort zone and circumstances, and from people who looked like you.
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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
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If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.
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If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
