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Art Quotes
"Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?"
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"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."
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"It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something."
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"And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art."
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"No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon."
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"You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice."
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"The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt."
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"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight."
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"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."
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"I think words come between the spectator and the picture."
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"It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly."
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"They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness."
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"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."
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"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
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"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population."
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"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."
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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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"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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"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
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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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"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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"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
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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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"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."
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"You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves."
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