Art Quotes
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The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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I did exhibitions with the Surrealists in Paris, c. 1929 because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.
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For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.
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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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In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
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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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You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
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All Heaven is within thee, Man, And all of Hell within thy heart: What thou dost choose and will to have, That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.
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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 without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
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What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
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Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
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Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
