Art Is Quotes - Page 31

• I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I refuse to consider that sex should be hidden. When you hide sex, problems start because sex becomes dangerous.

  Olivier Zahm

  Fashion, Art, Simple

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• We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art is about limiting access to the product to create value, and entertainment is about dispersing it. We've put ourselves in a position where, if we reach conceptual perfection, it's career suicide.

  Casey Spooner

  Suicide, Art, Perfection

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• There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film. And all art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

  John Boorman

  Religious, Art, Book

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• I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.

  Kirsha Kaechele

  Art, Philosophy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Art

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.

  Matthew Slotover

  Art

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in different contexts. If the artist is unaware of the context, it's very unlikely the work will be very good.

  Matthew Slotover

  Art, Different, Very Good

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Street art is designed to be seen out of the corner of your eye, on the hoof. Art that's made for galleries is made to be looked at in a more static way for a longer period of time and may not be so striking immediately, but perhaps resonates for a longer period.

  Matthew Slotover

  Art, Eye

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art and humour are uneasy bedfellows. Artists need strong feelings to motivate them to make things. I am often fuelled by anger.

  Grayson Perry

  Art, Strong, Feelings

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think a lot of people are involved in art because of the fashion of art and the conversation. It gives them a certain sophistication, something to speak about. But art is, if it's conceptual, really about understanding the concept. And if it's beautiful, it's about seeing the beauty. It's gone much further than that now. There's too much commercialism attached to art. If the market cracks one day big-time, you'll frighten so many people away who will never come back. Because they don't really feel for art. People who buy art should want it because they love it, they want to enjoy it.

  Laurence Graff

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.

  Emi Fontana

  Art, Mean, Audience

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• I think casting is really important. Finding the right sensibility for the right part is an art in itself. If you're off there, you make it harder on yourself as a director. And it's fun to work that out with the actors. I don't think there's any magic to directing actors. It's very instinctual. Working with actors is really one of my favorite creative moments of the whole process, and the most fun, because it's collaborative. I spend a lot of time rehearsing. I'm very rehearsal-oriented, probably because I have some background in theater. I like knowing what will work beforehand.

  Richard Linklater

  Art, Fun, Thinking

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• There is a good deal of art that in some traditions of conceptual work are anti-affect, in fact a very large chunk of mainstream art after 1950 took against affect art altogether because they said, "No, we hate affect art because this is how we get manipulated by totalitarianism and therefore artists shouldn't play that game." And a lot of artists agreed to play that game, which I personally believe is to the loss of art.

  Laura Belem

  Art, Hate, Believe

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• What I think is dreadful about art is the way it's related to the money afterward. Not when you do it... But after that, it's like 5,000 rich people have access to it. A movie, even though it can be a bad movie or a good movie, it is more democratic. The people who buy my films, the people who buy my installations it's sometimes a foundation or a museum. When it's a foundation, it's related to very, very, very rich people - who are your enemies! Your enemies are feeding you. But you're not meeting them. So it's a very strange thing.

  Chantal Akerman

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I have found that sharing this very intimate part of my life has been really powerful, because it has brought support from people I wasn't expecting. It's cathartic on many different levels. As I get older, I realize it's so much better to connect with people. It makes everything better to connect. Only connect. Why not have my art be about that? I think of it as moving from the third person to the first.

  Tiffany Shlain

  Art, Powerful, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

  Stephanie Seymour

  Art

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• Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.

  Michael Chow

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

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• It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and they make themselves. If I told you the same story twelve years ago, I could have emphasized something different. The importance changes, the meaning of things shifts over time. Also, I think all art is autobiographical. Every endeavor is full of impressions of ourselves.

  Phoebe Gloeckner

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Comics are a "young" art form, and there is much confusion as to how to treat them. Images have more immediate impact than words, and it is not every reader who can be convinced to relax into experiencing the work for what it is - not words and pictures, but a different form, where the narrative is propelled by the blending of image, word and sequence, and where no element can be extricated and have the same meaning by itself. When this art is shown in a gallery, its "thingness" is called to attention, it is no longer experienced as "story," but rather as an artifact of the artist's process.

  Phoebe Gloeckner

  Art, Confusion, Relax

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form, or material. My feeling is that most paintings, most films, most music, most literature and, indeed, most comics fail as "Art." A masterpiece in any genre, form or material is equally "good." It's ridiculous to impose a hierarchy of value on art. The division between high and low art is one that cannot be defended because it has no correlation to aesthetic response.

  Phoebe Gloeckner

  Art, Independent, Feelings

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Drawing the kind of comics that I do takes so long that to specifically address something as transitory as a political matter in it would be about as effective as composing a symphony with hopes that it would depose a despot. On top of that, I personally don't think that my version of art is the best way to deal with political issues at all, or, more specifically, the place to make a point. Not that art can't, but it's the rare art that still creates something lasting if its main aim was purely to change a particular unfair social structure.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Thinking, Long

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's no way to avoid that, unless it is pure decoration. But even pure decoration has also some value because you can read pure decoration as a way to ignore the reality that is around us, saying, "Well, I'm not interested. I just like to paint this wall blue.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Art, Wall, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By the late '50s, something was happening in England, and it got to be quite exciting. The music world then started to explode with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. It was an incredible time with this mixture of independence in art, fashion, and the explosion of the pop sensibility. London was certainly at the center of it all for a few years. And as far as art is concerned, I think that sensibility of what was later called Pop art started in England even before America. And so I was lucky to be there.

  Tony Shafrazi

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a matter of life and death, meaning just the breathing and living and thinking experience-that's what art is.

  Tony Shafrazi

  Art, Thinking, Life And Death

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

  Laurence Graff

  Art, People, Great Things

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