Art Quotes
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Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.
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I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Life should be art, right?
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Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man.
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I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
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The worlds of art, philanthropy, and business are absolutely intertwined.
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I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
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We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
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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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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
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I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
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We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
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Art helped give me confidence.
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My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.
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Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
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Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.
