Art Quotes
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I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual.
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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
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My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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The art of communication is the language of leadership.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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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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Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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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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The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
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You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
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Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.
