Art Quotes
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.
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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.
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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Repetition is the death of art.
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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.
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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
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What I dream of is an art of balance.
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