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Art Quotes
"Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts."
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"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative."
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"The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well."
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"I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!"
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."
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"I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing."
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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
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"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself."
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"When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting."
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"Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories."
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"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."
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"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art."
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"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me."
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"To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity."
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
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"Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art ."
Art,
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"I am an artist first and a photographer second."
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"A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence."
Art,
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"Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded."
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"High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water."
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"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
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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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"And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman."
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