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Art Quotes
"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things."
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"There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating."
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"Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting."
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"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language."
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"The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art."
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"I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet."
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"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."
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"Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go."
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"It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else."
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"Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!"
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"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
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"People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience."
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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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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
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"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
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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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"I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist."
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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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"But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms."
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"But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything."
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"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."
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"The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean."
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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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