Art Quotes
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If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Jim Harrison -
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
Kate Chopin
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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Pauline Kael -
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
Kate Braverman -
In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds,-from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art.
Democritus -
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
Samuel Daniel -
Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.
Jacob Batalon
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Of these two literatures, as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the endeavour, in all branches of knowledge - theology, philosophy, history, art, science - to see the object as in itself it really is.
Matthew Arnold -
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Ted Shawn -
That Shakespeare wanted Art.
Ben Jonson -
Emotions are the basics of any art form!
Jean-Michel Jarre -
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
Martin Mull -
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
Patrick Demarchelier
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
Wassily Kandinsky -
'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya -
More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
Sam Shepard -
I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
Madchen Amick -
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
Charlie Haden
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Sometimes one’s very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that’s the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
Harry Callahan -
Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.
Jerry Saltz -
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
Barbara Kruger