Art Quotes
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
A. R. Rahman -
People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.
Kathleen Kennedy
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If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.
Martin Mull -
The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...it is the same as saying some kind of food is good but most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy -
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
Patrick Duffy -
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Hans Hofmann -
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
Plato -
I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.
Lisa Hanawalt
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A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
Bill Viola -
Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.
Mark Morris -
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Carl Andre -
My work looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.
Nicolas Provost -
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
David Bailey -
It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
Hans Hofmann -
I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
Barry McGee -
What I loved about wrestling was just being foolish, so I studied clown. I studied clown. I studied the art of clown. I actually did my thesis on clown.
Becky Lynch -
For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.
Pawel Pawlikowski -
The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.
Fred Armisen -
All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?
Bette Midler
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
Rachel Kushner -
Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Larry Wall -
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.
Bill T. Jones