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Art Quotes
"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other."
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"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
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"Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years."
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"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr."
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"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism."
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"Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is."
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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
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"I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart."
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"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
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"This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers."
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"Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from."
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"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."
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"Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different."
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"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
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"Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience."
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"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
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"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs."
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"I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever."
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"If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art."
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"If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work."
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"More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result."
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"I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd."
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"I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce."
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"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed."
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."
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"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
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