- Feel
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020