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Art Quotes
"Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us."
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"Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth."
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"Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise."
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"I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school."
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"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
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"The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly."
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"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."
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"Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism."
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"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."
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"Please, never tell me what 'horror erotica' is. Real #art is being lost in a bizarre swamp of over-processed, sexually exploitative garbage."
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"But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play."
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"I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour."
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"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them."
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
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"Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography."
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"The most complicated skill is to be simple."
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"Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant."
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"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."
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"Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it."
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"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."
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"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."
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"Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression."
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