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Art Quotes
"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."
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"I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new."
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"The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him."
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"Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike."
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"The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined."
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"I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history."
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"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
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"It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money."
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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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"There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair."
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"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
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"Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world."
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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
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"For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints."
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"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
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"I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain."
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"The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."
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"I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it."
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"It is from the womb of art that criticism was born."
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"I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live."
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"The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name."
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"Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it."
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"In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color."
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"I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form."
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."
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"Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization."
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"After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations."
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"Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings."
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"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
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"A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. When I speak of writing, the image that comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or a literary tradition; it is the person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and, alone, turns inward. Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words."
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"Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement."
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"Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue."
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"In taking Nur's art into his hands, did he have to gather up the stained, soiled, discoloured and odorous rags of his life as well?"
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"The first source of art, then, is akin to the display of colors and plumage on the male animal in mating time; it lies in the desire to adorn and beautify the body. And just as self-love and mate-love, overflowing, pour out their surplus of affection upon nature, so the impulse to beautify passes from the personal to the external world. The soul seeks to express its feeling in objective ways, through color and form; art really begins when men undertake tobeautify things."
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"The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing."
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