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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.
- Son
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I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
- Architecture
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There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020