- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But for me, true art can't be created by accident. There are boundaries to the reach of algorithms. Limits to what can be quantified. Among all of the staggeringly impressive, mindboggling things that data and statistics can tell me, how it feels to be human isn't one of them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
- Exist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art world doesn't exist in a vacuum.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- Foreground
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020