Art Quotes
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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.
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I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.
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That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.
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To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".
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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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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.
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I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music. In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
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I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.
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The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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The core of my writing is not art but truth.
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I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
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I chose to paint because the medium as such has a particular meaning. It is almost synonymous with what is popularly viewed as Art - art with a capital A-with all the glory, the piety, and the authority that it commands.
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The main qualifications to the lesser position of painting is that advances in art are certainly not always formal ones.
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
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Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
