Art Quotes
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.
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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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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
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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.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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This truth-to prove, and make thine own: ‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
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Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Not to know the Bible is, in some ways, to be illiterate, to neglect the very roots of philosophy, art, architecture, literature, poetry and music.
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The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes an artist to sing the spaces. Anybody can paint a brushstroke; it takes an artist to know when not to put the brushstroke.
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Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.
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My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated in Spain. He painted our portraits. My mom, Jacqueline, was Scots-Irish. They met in 1947 when dad played for the Houston Buffalos, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
