- Deceit
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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
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called 'Johnny.' I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Next Wave' started as a drawing for a new silkscreen fine art print. I ended up doing the prints digitally because the water-based inks were better for the environment than the oil based inks. So, I learned about the Epson digital printers to get the image I wanted.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love white walls because white reflects the light and is a great backdrop for art.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020