Art Quotes

Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.

Martin Filler

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The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

James Lafferty

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Eric Gill

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I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

Philippe Petit

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

Richard MacDonald

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The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch.

Marcel Duchamp

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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Kiki Smith

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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Giorgio Vasari

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Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

Criss Angel

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All art is exploitation.

Sherman Alexie

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Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements.

Sasha Velour

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The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.

Martin Freeman

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There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.

Grimes

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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

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A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Pierre Bonnard

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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

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Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

Richard Phillips

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Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

Marcel Duchamp

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Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

Kim Cattrall

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I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

Greg Lake

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Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Cynthia Rowley

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I always wanted to act. I am very passionate about the art. So when I got the opportunity, I was more than happy.

Shaheer Sheikh

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The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Saul Williams

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