Art Quotes
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I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.
Edgardo Osorio
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It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.
Rita Moreno
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
Damien Hirst
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In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
Luciano Pavarotti
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I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'
Edgar Wright
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You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
Walker Evans
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Oscar Wilde
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I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
Paul Auster
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I enjoy theater just for the sheer excitement of it and the immediate response that you get, and how every night the audience is a little bit different; but then, it's expensive to work in N.Y., and stage work is limited, so you're just doing it for the art.
Dorian Missick
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Barry Jenkins
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The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.
Jim Harrison
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When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.
Jackie DeShannon
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In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
Harry Callahan
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I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
Duane Michals
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Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.
Alcuin
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I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
