- Must
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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
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more complex emotion; it derives from a tragic view of the world, a tragic view of art.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
- Nov 07, 2020
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're young, and you're doing stuff, you're making music, directing, making art, it's all future directed. You want to change stuff onward. And when you get older - this applies to me - you think about the things you want to do and how it will be perceived by your children one day.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks because of the digital age.
- Action Films
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
- Content
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020