Art Quotes
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It would be ridiculous for anyone to consider me the face of Korean art.
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The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.
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Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
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I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.
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Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
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My chemistry teacher wanted me to do chemistry, and my art teacher wanted me to do art. Fashion seemed like a good in-between - using your brain but being creative.
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You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form.
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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.
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It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.
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Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you. (p. 27)
