- Purpose
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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
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Orleans has an incredible culture. Everybody brings up food first, but I realized there's a lot more to that in terms of music and art and people and history.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
- Kick
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
- Furnished
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is art, and making watches is art, too.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020