Famous Quotes: Art

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
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'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.
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I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
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Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
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The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
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Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
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