- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art Quotes
Why people make it, and who it's for.
This set of "art" quotes leans toward purpose — one artist frames their work as a way to elevate others, while another argues that art shapes who a person becomes. For quotes on standing out through craft, see Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The plan was just to make great art, and working with Donald Glover, who is such a renaissance man, we've been working together for ten years, and he is always pushing the envelope in a way - like, whenever we work together, I have no idea what it is going to turn out to be.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
Japanimation is a whole different art form.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020