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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Longer
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Art is longer than life.
- Break
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I wanted to break the idea of what male performers are supposed to show, what performances girl groups are supposed to show. I really wanted to break those labels, showing that dance is a form of art.
- Chagrin
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Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.
- Me
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When I was around 12 or so, I saw 'The Shining.' I just remember that being a turning point for me, where I started to think about the fact that there was a hand behind the film. That it wasn't just this magical story being told - there were actual people crafting these films, and they were works of art.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
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I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.
- Proud
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We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.
- Music
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Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
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The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.
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- Nov 07, 2020