Art Is Quotes - Page 34

• Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

  Eli Broad

  Art, Way, Artist

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• Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Art, Passion, Television

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.55, Bantam

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• If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

  Leo Burnett

  Art, Economy, Tricks

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• I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

  William S. Burroughs

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• The history of art is the history of revivals.

  Samuel Butler

  Art, Architecture, Revival

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 8

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• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

  Samuel Butler

  Art, Evil, Interesting

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.197, The Floating Press

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• Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

  Nicolas Cage

  Art, Lying, What If

  "'You've got to be able to break the wall'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2007.

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• I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Thinking, Growth

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• Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

  Kim Cattrall

  Art, Expression, Play

  "A lot of guys my age are terrified of me". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2005.

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• The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Personality, Seductive

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• You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Eras, Study

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• I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

  Camille Claudel

  Art, Jobs, Careers

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• Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Decision

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• Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Sentimental, Emotion

  Jean Cocteau (1926). “A call to order: written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays”, Haskell House Pub Ltd

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• Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Conscious, Unconscious

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• The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Congratulations, Giving

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• Fine art is knowledge made visible.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Made, Fine

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• Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, Hope, Art

  "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

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• Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, Art, Lying

  "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

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• African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

  Mos Def

  Art, Cheer, Healing

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Vices

  Quoted in Paul Lafond, Degas (1918)

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• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Reflection, Study

  Ann Dumas, Edgar Degas (1996). “Degas As a Collector”

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• Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Morning, Thinking

  "The Words of Extraordinary Women" by Carolyn Warner, October 8, 2010.

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• Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Doe, Done

  "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

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• Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Art, World

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