To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
Peter M. Brant
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I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it.
Will Arnett
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I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
Rhys Ifans
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All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
Jacques Lipchitz
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The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.
Julianne Moore
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
Erica Jong
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Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
Bo Burnham
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In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Thomas Huxley
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I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
Paul Simonon
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When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.
Kyp Malone
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I've decided to go for a B.A. in art. It's the shortest route to a degree. I'm thinking about teaching.
Herb Trimpe
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My passion is really candy, but I know that I can use art and fashion as inspiration.
Dylan Lauren
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Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.
Peter Max
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When you create art, the world has to wait.
Will Smith
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There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.
Richard Artschwager
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We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.
Kathryn Harrison
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In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.
Juliet Rylance
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway
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To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let's Play streaming world. That's what it is: it's people performing and creating art using video games. It's just more personality-driven rather than story-driven these days.
Burnie Burns
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I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.
Thomas Kinkade
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Art means to dare - and to have been right.
Ned Rorem
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I struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me.
Liev Schreiber
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville
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Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
David Mamet
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