Art Quotes
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People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.
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If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.
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I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.
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You really can't bring about anything new with art.
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My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
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I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal.
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Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting.
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I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
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These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.
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Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.
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One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
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I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.
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Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
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I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone's assumptions.
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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
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Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
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Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
