"The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations."
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"If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society - it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there."
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"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."
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"Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much."
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"The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions."
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"Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship"
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"Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything."
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"The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas."
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"Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy."
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"I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film."
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"The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless."
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"Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle."
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"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about."
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"I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness."
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"Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned."
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"Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it"
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"I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?"
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"Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss."
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"We rappers are role models."
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"Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves."
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