- Power
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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
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
- Nov 07, 2020
Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
- Contracted
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- Nov 07, 2020
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
- Gesture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
- Devoid
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- Nov 07, 2020