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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
- Believe
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Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
- Believe
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I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.
- Love
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I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.
- Help
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I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
- History
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Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
- Give
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Art helped give me confidence.
- Being
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I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.
- Me
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I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
- History
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I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
- Music
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I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
- Artist
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As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
- Me
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I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020