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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

~Elliott Erwitt

Topics: About Art Everything Finding Found Interesting Little Me Observation Ordinary Photography Place See Something Them Things Way You

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Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Art Geometry Joy Want

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I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

~Eloise Mumford

Topics: About Art Cause Controversial Conversations Excited Films Get Lot People Point Talking Things Think Ways I Think

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I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

~Elton John

Topics: Able Art Buy Day Day To Day Dead Enough Great Great Art Heard Inspires Lucky Me Never Photograph Photographs Picasso Rather Really Someone Wall Want Wealthy

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We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Amazing Art Culture How Interested Lost Lucky Often People Popular Popular Culture Sight Want

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Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Art Command Invitation More Performance Performance Art Really Than

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LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Art Big Leg Up

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Monsters are a departure from 'reality' in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of literature as well as in regards to art. When I sit down to draw, I'm energized by the possibility of creating a monster. That is where I find beauty and pathos.

~Emil Ferris

Topics: Art Beauty Creating Departure Down Draw Fantastic Find Literature Mean Monster Monsters Pathos Possibilities Possibility Range Reality Regards Sit Way Well Where Within World

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My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

~Emil Ferris

Topics: Art Chicago Created Institute Me Met Off Parents Side Somewhere Students

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When I say 'art healed me,' it really healed me!

~Emil Ferris

Topics: Art Healed Me Really Say

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