- Just
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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
- Hopeless
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
- Feathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never forget my first Art Basel.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.
- Expert
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm good at is making art.
- Coherence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020