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Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
Jerry Saltz
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My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.


Thomas Steinbeck
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Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.


Lilly Wachowski
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The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.


Brian Eno
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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.


Sydney Pollack
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Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!


Gene Wilder
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I think the idea of art kills creativity.


Douglas Adams
I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.
Naomi Watts
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.


Martin Scorsese
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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.


John Calvin
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There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
Joe Wright
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The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.
William Friedkin
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
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Whether you're in a blockbuster or an art film, you have to be able to adapt.


Lea Seydoux
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Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
Amy Gerstler
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I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
Werner Herzog
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Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.
St. Vincent
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Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.
Piet Mondrian
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I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.
Rosecrans Baldwin