- Will
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.
- Bad Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
For us, an album is the highest art form - an album or a really incredible film. We're musicians, not filmmakers, so this is what we can do.
- Concentrated
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like a shoot when I feel strong and sexy, a little hard, with a darker edge. That's what I do best. I like giving a photographer what they want, working with the art director. And modeling is all I've ever known.
- Creator
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
- Photographing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photographing a cake can be art.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020