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Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted. -- Danny Gregory
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another. -- John Chamberlain
I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials. -- Alice Neel
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. -- T. S. Eliot
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. -- Jean Cocteau
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. -- Jerry Saltz
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. -- Jeff Koons
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material. -- Chris Van Allsburg
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less! -- Nathan Myhrvold
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors. -- Emil Nolde
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form. -- Irving Stone
I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off. -- Ronald Biggs
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made. -- Norman McLaren
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. -- E. M. Forster
The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life. -- Leland Ryken
I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists. -- Rashid Johnson
People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK? -- Ai Weiwei
As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess. -- Rashid Johnson
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now. -- John Desmond Bernal
I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it. -- Common
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials. -- William S. Burroughs
Art should be born from the materials. -- Jean Dubuffet
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning. -- Robert Warren
Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world. -- Patricia Piccinini
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. -- Sol LeWitt
Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. -- Meyer Schapiro
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself. -- Charlton Heston
Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art. -- James Thurber
Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something very unpleasant, very frightening, and looking absolutely real. -- Paul Thek

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