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Art Quotes by Louise Bourgeois
- Art is a guarantee of sanity.
- Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are…
- Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt…
- A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but…
- A work of art doesn't have to be explained,
- Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what…
- Art is manipulation without intervention.
- Art is a way of recognizing oneself...
- A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If…
- What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled…
- Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which…
- An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
- My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov