Art Quotes
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Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
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I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.
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Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.
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O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?
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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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A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations.
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Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that's something I really admire about her.
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I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.
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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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For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
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I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.
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I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
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Art was what I originally started out to do and music came second at first. I had a year at art college but I left because it was too much like school. I give all my paintings away to people I like.
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I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively.
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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
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To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
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I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.
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Fine art is really something I want to get into.
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Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.
