Peter M. Brant Quotes

• Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

  Peter M. Brant

  Art, Errors, Succeed

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• Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

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  Art, Book, Mean

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• There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

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  People, Crooks

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• I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

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  People, Trying, Needs

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• To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

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  Art, Wall, Expression

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• My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

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  Hurt, Winning, Who I Am

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• If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

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  Vision, Trying, Accomplish

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• I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

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  Real, Character, Thinking

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• I identify with the 99 per cent.

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  Cents

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• Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

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  Artist, Gun, Hands

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• It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful in a few years. A perfect example is the Warhol ‘Marilyn’; in the 1960s it was deemed garish. Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.

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  Beautiful, Art, Book

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