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“There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.”

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Author:Norman Foster

“Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.”

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Author:Ben Schnetzer

“A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.”

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Book:Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a choice that I made, very early on. I was interested mainly in the entertainment arts. I wasn't as interested in being a fine artists.”

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Author:Rick Heinrichs

“[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.”

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Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.”

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Author:Max Bill

“Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.”

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Book:Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments

Source: Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments

“Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.”

“What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense.”

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Author:Zoe Leonard

“I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious.”

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Author:Michael Light

“Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.”

“I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment.”

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Author:Eric Drooker

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for the same jobs. I realistically didn't expect to become a teacher, and after two or three years, I accepted defeat.”

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Author:Kurt Wagner

“Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.”

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Author:Lawrence Weiner

“I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.”

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Author:James Pearse Connelly

“I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.”

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Author:Amanda Palmer

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”

“Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.”

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Author:Patricia Piccinini

“What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a better place. You know, it's a great thing to be doing. A fine artist does that, too, but they make the expression for themselves, not for others' use.”

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Author:Paula Scher

“Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."”

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Author:Mark Alan Stamaty

“The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.”

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Author:Syd Barrett

“I identify first and foremost as a fine artist. Even the way that I put words together; this could be called painterly and the combinations don't always make sense. I think there are a lot of people who are fine artists and musicians also. I think it's a common thread, the way the brain words.”

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Author:Marissa Nadler

“I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it very seriously. I really wanted to be a master painter. I didn't think I'd ever become a musician because I was so shy.”

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Author:Marissa Nadler

“Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars and that's seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade. I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.”

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Author:Molly Crabapple

“I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I got older I became more of an urban person. That's really when I started to become more of a creative person who was interested in fine arts, painting, drawing, and music. I studied jazz for a long time. Looking back, all those things were great training.”

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Author:Reed Krakoff

“I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold them to my classmates for a dime. I studied painting. Originally I was a design and illustration major, but I met this girl. Back then, if you were a designer, you were a real sellout, and she was a real hardcore painter. I knew she would never take me seriously unless I was an art major, so I switched majors to fine arts. Anyway, we're married now. So it worked. How I got to my style? I'm a weird artist in that everything I do looks a little different.”

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Author:Tony Tasset

“My greatest passion has always been connecting with creative people, appreciating the artistic and discovering fresh perspectives on the world. I came on board to use my experience in building an international community of photographers, illustrators and video artists at iStockphoto who learned, grew and sold their work to millions around the world. Building a community that large requires personality, a keen sense of what both the contributing artists and the buying audience need, and an ability to balance both. I wanted very much to transfer those skills to the fine art world.”

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Author:Bruce Livingstone

“The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art. She speaks to me. She was brutally honest in her work. At that time in fine art, you really didn't see many female artists expressing that. She was such a strong female presence, and I really look up to her. She had a lot of physical pain.”

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Author:Lindi Ortega

“I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a matter of life and death, meaning just the breathing and living and thinking experience-that's what art is.”

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Author:Tony Shafrazi

“I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.”

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Book:Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller

Source: Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller

“My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.”

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Author:Maya Lin

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

Source: No Man Is an Island

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

Source: Michelangelo: A Record of His Life as Told in His Own Letters and Papers

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

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Author:Joan Miro

“For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

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Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”

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Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”