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Art Quotes
"If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art."
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"I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories."
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"I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?"
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"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
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"Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved."
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"I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity."
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"L'Attitude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu."
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"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design."
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"A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves us, as any marriage would, and just as no marriage is exactly the same as another, so each of us interprets a story differently, feels for it differently. A story calls upon us...as individuals-and we like that. Stories benefit the human mind."
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"Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?"
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"In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go."
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"That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues."
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"I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me."
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"Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones."
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"Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way."
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"When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't."
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"All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality."
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"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."
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"What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art."
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"For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you."
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"Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold."
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"A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object."
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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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"I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work."
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"The Beautiful is always strange."
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"Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life."
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