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"978 Art Quotes

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Find Life Living Nocturnal
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Kanye's the best. He really, really is. He's cool. And why we've always gotten along is because we can just sit down and talk about art.

About Along Always Art
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People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

Able Art Concepts Exciting
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Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Artistic Culture Earth Evolving
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I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.

Art Buying Find Friends
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Characters Cord Cut Own
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Finally Get No Reason Paid
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

Culture Kind Know Pop
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

Art Art Form Artists Business
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

Believe Delivering Example Fashion
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My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Purpose Art Serve Indict
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Reality Order Create Art
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Art Comfort Disturbed Comfortable
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Art Of Conceal Perfection
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

Ever Genius Happens Maturity
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I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it
Live World Created Art
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Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

Because Character Characters Consciousness
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

Artists Choice Feels Film
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

Because Culture Had Never
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Beyond Literature Men Minded
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Attached Attachment Corners Ever
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Believe Lies Living Art
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Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
Painting Mean Describing State
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

About Artist Beyond Excess
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

About Curtain Draw Essay
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Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.
Attitude Being Company Exciting
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What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

Back Bring Dreary Even
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I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.

About Artist Book Car
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It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

Call Cartoon Cartooning Could
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Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Cartoonists Come Dirty Draw
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'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

Book Books Call Come
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The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

After Always Dark Definitely
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Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

Amazing Beauty Capturing Comics
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Art Else Everything Passion
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Always Art Done Effort
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Art Being Contingent Eternal
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Artists Bourgeois Monks State
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Applause Artist Bouquet Every
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The beauty of an artwork is closely linked to its ability to stimulate emotions within us.

Beauty Ability Stimulate Emotions
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Art What See Make
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For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Painting Easy Who Difficult
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The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
Artist Sees Others
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A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

Man Certain Moment Effort
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Art Spontaneous I Reflection
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Only Longer Knows Painter
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Very Well Copy Sees
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Painting Idea Give True
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A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.

Picture First Product Imagination
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

Must Same-subject Time Hundred-times
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Painting Easy Know-how Very
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