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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. (Alexie Sherman)
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. (Alexie Sherman)
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. (Alexie Sherman)
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. (Alexie Sherman)
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist. (Alexie Sherman)
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. (Alexie Sherman)
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. (Alexie Sherman)
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. (Alexie Sherman)
Steven Meisel is definitely number one. I also love to work with Albert Watson because his work is a mix of photography and art. (Alexie Sherman)
My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone. (Alexie Sherman)
We were raised to be open to unusual and culturally different art. (Alexie Sherman)
I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun. (Alexie Sherman)
I was truly ignorant about art before the film. (Alexie Sherman)
I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks. (Alexie Sherman)
But art is not necessarily without controversy. (Alexie Sherman)
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member. (Alexie Sherman)
I don't know where art is going to go in the future, so I can't hypothesize about whether I would still want to be at the NEA if it got into any issue of morality. (Alexie Sherman)
It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. (Alexie Sherman)
No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. (Alexie Sherman)
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art. (Alexie Sherman)
There's a lot of people in any given community - rural, inner-city, or whatever - who have simply no access to the arts. (Alexie Sherman)
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