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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
- Mistake
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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
- Drawing
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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
- Me
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Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
- Anything
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I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.
- Copy
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So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the confidence that comes from knowing that somewhere inside them there should be the vitality which enabled their fathers to produce these extraordinary and exciting forms.
- Ideas
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Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing because they didn't like their existing ideas being challenged and overturned. Cezanne was probably the key figure in my lifetime.
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Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned with pattern making. Yet the carvings of New Ireland have, besides their vicious kind of vitality, a unique spatial sense, a bird-in-a-cage form.
- People
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The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life.
- Me
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The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.
- Assure
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I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
- Preach
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I will preach with my brush.
- Politician
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
- Beauty
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In art economy is always beauty.
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