I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.
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Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and s... TWYLA THARP I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is re... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's a... DONALD JUDD Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - be... PETER DINKLAGE Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When w... ZARA LARSSON I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never ... JAY-Z I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that... JUNOT DIAZ I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like... JAMILA WOODS I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like ... DANIEL JOHNS I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclai... RENE RICARD The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like th... KELLY CLARKSON I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods becaus... LARRY GAGOSIAN To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching ... FRANK OCEAN I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think... ROY LICHTENSTEIN During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys... KACY CATANZARO I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art. JAMES ROSENQUIST I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho... RICHARD MACDONALD I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never as... JOSE JAMES Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to sa... PATRICK STUMP We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it... BILLY AL BENGSTON After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' B... CAMPBELL SCOTT I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I'... JOHN MELLENCAMP Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good... EZRA POUND As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.' BARRY MCGEE I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes p... JACKIE MASON I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything. KAREN MORLEY A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and ... ZACHARY LEVI So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the... BRIAN DE PALMA When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or ... JEFF ROSS I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redempt... MICHAEL CONNELLY If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody wi... NATHAN SAWAYA I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fab... NEIL DIAMOND We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is lik... CLIVE BELL I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen the... VINCENT KARTHEISER It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll eve... GARY KEMP 'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every... RICHARD PHILLIPS I have this romanticized idea of dance music in the '90s because, obviously, I was way too young... JAMIE XX Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole... CHRIS BROWN James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn... BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools. CHAKA KHAN There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a... BARRY JENKINS I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired. BEN FOLDS Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to ... FERNANDO BOTERO I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those pe... KATHLEEN HANNA My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, ... LADY GAGA I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan... RONNIE WOOD I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the 'Geek Trifecta' ... KATEE SACKHOFF It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like i... D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means w... BARBARA KRUGER I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I ... KATHLEEN HANNA I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special ... THOMAS MIDDLEDITCH You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for ... ANN POWERS I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'O... ZOEY DEUTCH I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop... JEFF KOONS In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm say... ALBERTO MANGUEL My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was ... ALEXA CHUNG 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will sav... HUNTER S. THOMPSON 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art... NATHAN SAWAYA I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring... TARON EGERTON My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I&... K'NAAN Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you'... KREAYSHAWN I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Va... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like ... ERYKAH BADU I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the... IDRIS ELBA People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really... DAMIEN HIRST I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, ... CAIO FONSECA When art has changed, it's because the world was changing. CORITA KENT Can works be made which are not 'of art'? MARCEL DUCHAMP There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - i... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT 'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie... M. C. GAINEY I think back to my time in children's television, back in the 1970s, and the amount of innovatio... SYLVESTER MCCOY Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I ... JOAKIM NOAH So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly c... JENNY HOLZER When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'... RON WOOD
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