- Back To School
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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
- Back To School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.
- Envision
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important things in the digital world is being able to story-tell and help people envision the art of the possible with respect to different technologies.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.
- Different Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
- Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020