- Challenge
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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
- Reflect
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I think art can reflect tragedy.
- Angst
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Art is not only about angst.
- Great
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A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.
- Quiet
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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
- Spiritual
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Art is spiritual.
- Flatters
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My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.
- May
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Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.
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Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
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Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
- Over
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Art is the triumph over chaos.
- Looking
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- Drive
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Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we separate music from life we get art.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020