Quotes about art
artist asked great painting
No one asked an artist who was great in his 20s and 30s why he was still painting in his 40s and 50s, Edwin Moses
art imitates nature
Nature diversifies and imitates; art imitates and diversifies. Blaise Pascal
art intrinsic value
Only art of intrinsic value is suitable for children! Everything else is harmful.
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Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.
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My first hit was back in 1995. I am from Oklahoma and have been fortunate enough to work with a lot ofdifferent artists in the industry. Bryan White
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My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats. Drake Bell
art music
My first engagement with any art was music. Martin Freeman
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My ex-wife did three or four articles about me in a tabloid newspaper which was very sad, Graham Thorpe
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In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other. Charles Lyell
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A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. John Updike
art curiosity drives science surrounded technology
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see. Louie Schwartzberg
art people
People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art. Kathleen Kennedy
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The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out. Karen Traviss
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss. Kara Walker
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached. K'naan
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street. Karen Finerman
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Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises. JR
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For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an artist should do everything by himself forever. I did it for years and then slowly built my circle of trust.
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Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people. It's a whole process. And I like that. For me, that's where the artwork is.
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The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where it's displayed.
art change
Art is not meant to change the world.
art bringing came coming people
When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here.
art beauty cannot measure project
The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.
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Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.
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A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art. Julia Glass
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We are not an all-ages dance club. We are a skills-building youth music and arts program that also does concerts.
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We are honored to have such a varied and celebrated group of artists joining Music Days and using the power of music to promote cross-cultural understanding, ... Danny was a talented musician who always connected people through words and music; he truly lived the Music Days theme of 'Harmony for Humanity.'
artists believe
We did great. I do believe that the artists are very pleased.
art choosing consists disastrous politics
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith
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If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum. Lynda Resnick
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You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.
artist hands wish
We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists. Jandy Nelson