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Marilyn Minter

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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
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A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.
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My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
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We wanted to live with our art. But the pleasure is not from owning the objects. The pleasure and th...
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The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure
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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
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I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ...
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I wanted to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, th...
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In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
DALE CARNEGIE
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me abo...
DAVID ROCKEFELLER
I'd like this to become a full arts festival, with film, music and visual art.
GIULIO SCALINGER
Work life has taken over normal life, yet it's been stripped of humor, joy and pleasure.
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The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an...
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the v...
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove...
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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests...
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
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Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.
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All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
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Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.
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'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art...
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Art has never been made while thinking of art.
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Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture ...
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It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form th...
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We started by talking about some of the local public-art projects that have taken place recently. Th...
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Art is the triumph over chaos.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restora...
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restora...
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Every season has its own art and the art of autumn is to bewitch the people!
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We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our cult...
DAVID ELLIOTT
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always...
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The slides are the way art history is taught. It's the way artists and art historians learn about ar...
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I think I've taken 41 charges this season. There's definitely an art to it.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping...
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping...
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You see corruption all over Latin America, but Brazil has raised it to a new art. It's disillusionin...
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You see corruption all over Latin America, but Brazil has raised it to a new art, ... It's disillusi...
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Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
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Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness ...
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It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing...
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Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old ...
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-c...
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We also wanted to create a community for young visual artists, such as musicians have. The pursuit o...
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As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its insp...
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards...
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DIANA GABALDON
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
ANSELM KIEFER
To truly perfect the business of art, one has to perfect the art of business.
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If someone says something about your art that makes you feel bad, disregard it and joyfully make mor...
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The art department here was developed in the 1960's and has had a faculty art show since the beginni...
BILL ANDREWS
The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effe...
CATHERINE DENEUVE
Each body has its art...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Each body has its art…
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Each body has its art…
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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around...
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Our inspiration really comes from modern art. So we've taken silhouettes and mixed those silhouettes...
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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mou...
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For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar...
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
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One day the world will look upon research on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. ...
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le...
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel...
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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Sco...
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
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Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior amo...
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From the shore.. one looks upward to the sanddune grass.. 10,000 green brushes attempting where the...
SAIOM SHRIVER
Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
EDWARD STEICHEN
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a p...
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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with wome...
MARILYN FRENCH
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to...
MARILYN FERGUSON
To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolt...
MARILYN FRENCH
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
MARILYN FERGUSON
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to...
MARILYN FRENCH
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times har...
MARILYN MONROE
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has a cleavage; they ought to worry if she has...
MARILYN MONROE
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolute...
MARILYN MONROE
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to f...
MARILYN FRENCH
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So...
MARILYN MONROE
A place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
MARILYN MONROE
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bothe...
MARILYN HORNE
What nearly everybody in my life
MARILYN MANSON
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, becau...
MARILYN FERGUSON
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.
MARILYN FERGUSON
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of th...
MARILYN FERGUSON
Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.
MARILYN MONROE
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
MARILYN MONROE
I have been on a calendar, but never on time.
MARILYN MONROE
Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging ...
MARILYN MONROE
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn'...
MARILYN MONROE
A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
MARILYN MONROE
A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE
A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE
Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
MARILYN MANSON
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting al...
MARILYN MONROE