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  • New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

    "Wolfgang Puck: 'Cooking is like painting'". Interview with Paul Willis, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.
  • Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

    Art   People   Shakes  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.

    Art   Thinking   Mind  
    "Scratches in the Temple Wall - An Interview with Travis Nichols". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.
  • Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

    Norman Rockwell (1994). “Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces”, Outlet
  • A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

    Art   Nice   Surprise  
  • The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

    Art   Unique   Self  
  • My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.

    Art   Years   People  
    Source: www.believermag.com
  • Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.

    Beautiful   Art   Writing  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

    Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Seventh-Gay Adventists isn't just a helpful movie, important for the way it can help congregations of any denomination deal graciously and truthfully with the issue of homosexuality. It's also a beautifully-filmed and artfully-conceived movie. It does what the best art does - it 'humanizes the other.' You should see it, and when you do, you'll encourage others to see it as well.

    Art   Gay   Issues  
  • All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

    Dog   Art   War  
  • The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

    Life   Beautiful   Art  
    Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press
  • I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.

    Photography   Art   Eye  
    Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”
  • The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.

    Football   Art   Fields  
    "Go Forth (vol. 5)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. November 21, 2012.
  • Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.

  • Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

    "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".
  • Don't be afraid to put anything on paper because the best art has some element of danger to it and if you hold back then people will kind of be able to tell that you're trying to be something you're not.

    Art   People   Trying  
  • Land really is the best art.

    Art   Nature   Land  
    Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

    Art   Emotional   Class  
    Robert C. Solomon (1970). “Entertaining Ideas: Popular Philosophical Essays, 1970-1990”
  • The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

    Art   Dust   Soul  
  • Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  • If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

    Art   Jobs   Mean  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • The best art always comes unbidden.

    Art   Best Art  
    Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.325, Simon and Schuster
  • Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

    Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin
  • When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

    Art   College   Two  
    "Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry". Interview with Zoë Ruiz, logger.believermag.com. September 28, 2016.
  • Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

    Art   Business   Design  
    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  • Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

    Cheating   Art   Honesty  
    "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.
  • Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

    Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications
  • My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

    Art   Oxford   Goal  
    "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.
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