Famous Quotes: Art

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
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I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
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Vision is the true creative rhythm.
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I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
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What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
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I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
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There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
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