Art Quotes
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Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.
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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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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
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The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.
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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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Route running is an art, not a science.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
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Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.
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In art, practice always comes before theory.
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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the 'Aha.' Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.
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Everywhere there is craft and technique, everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of it awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.. .All craft, technique, and artistry, like anything beautiful, results in futility and vulgarity. critical quote on Constructivism artists
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Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
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Art for me is like breathing.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.
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Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
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I don't like hype cluttering art.
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I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about.
