Art Quotes
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Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
David Foster
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
Damien Hirst
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For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.
Pawel Pawlikowski
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
Edgar Wright
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When you're an artist, you're generally working at home alone in a studio. It's just really good to get with other guys and make art something you can share.
Brian Stelfreeze
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Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.
Jean Dubuffet
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I feel like we have to fight for art.
Jeremy Scott
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. Auden
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On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
Fredrik Bajer
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I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.
Janet Echelman
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I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively.
Andrea Suarez Paz
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Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
Jeffrey Deitch
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'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.
Tavi Gevinson
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
David Foster Wallace
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Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
Ikue Mori
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I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.
John Waters
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In America, people really love movies here and it's part of the culture. Even in Germany, still sometimes, the theater is always bigger than movies. It's more art. Movies are more popcorn. Here, movies are really an art form.
Baran Odar
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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.
Childe Hassam
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You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
Fefe Dobson
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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
Oscar Wilde
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For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.
Chris Pine
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It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.
Barbara Hepworth
