- Music
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.
- Nov 07, 2020
All art is erotic.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
- Discovers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020