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Art Quotes
"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
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"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."
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"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents."
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"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons."
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"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
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"The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead."
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"Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life."
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"I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs."
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"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."
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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."
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"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art."
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"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be."
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"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
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"And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration."
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"This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come."
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"Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me."
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"Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs."
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"The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste."
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"Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings."
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"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."
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"I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero."
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"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."
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"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
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"There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life."
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"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses."
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"That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation."
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"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."
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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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