Art Is Quotes - Page 24

• Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

  Sara Blecher

  Art, Persons, Subjective

  Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2015.

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• People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Powerful, People

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

  Wong Kar-wai

  Art, Looks, Wow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

  Juliette Lewis

  Art, People, Joy

  "New again: Juliette Lewis". Interview witр Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

  John Malkovich

  Art, Wall, Smell

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

  Danger Mouse

  Art, Talking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

  Val Kilmer

  Art, Way, Violent

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Mean, Men

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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• A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Games, Serious

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• Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Clear

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• Chatter about art is almost always useless.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Useless, Chatter

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• You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

  Jaime Zevallos

  Art, Community, Enjoy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Your actions are not in a vacuum. They impact other people. It may be in a way that's less obvious than in mainstream movies, but it comes to an understanding of who those people are. It also leaves it open to interpretation. And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Journey, Impact

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

  T.C. Boyle

  Art, Jobs, Mean

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

  Herb Alpert

  Art, Power Of Now

  "Trumpeter Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. March 3, 2014.

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• The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

  Shahin Najafi

  Art, Thinking, World

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end. People can take from it what they need. If somebody says, "Your art is very funny," I say, "You are totally right." If somebody says, "Your art is very sad," I say, "You are totally right." In Japan they say, "Your art is very Japanese, you even look Japanese.Your great-grandfather was most surely a Japanese man." And I say, "You are totally right."

  Christian Boltanski

  Art, Men, Japan

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

  Terence Koh

  Art, Internet, Destroying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. November 1, 2011.

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• People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.

  Jim Woodring

  Letting Go, Art, Fun

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.

  Jim Woodring

  Art, Fun, Nice

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Book, Other Cultures

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Museums, Cities

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Way, Belief

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, People, Magic

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