Art Quotes
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Art should never be held above our decency to each other.
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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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And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.
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I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.
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I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
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If I go into a museum, it doesn't matter how often a work of art has been written about or thought about, I am going to discover something that is my own, which will be new. You always must be discovering, rediscovering. That's what the world of art means. It means constant mystery in the discovery, the rediscovery.
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I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.
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Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'
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Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done - how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity'
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I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.
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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
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I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.
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I don't like hype cluttering art.
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I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.
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These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.
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Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
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I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
