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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
- Freedom
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
- Pride
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The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
- Fight
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Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
- Pure
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No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.
- Balance
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Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art.
- Funny
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It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
- Exposing
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Having artist parents, they knew the importance of exposing me and my sister to all types of music and art and making art part of our every day. it was just always there.
- Like
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I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.
- Music
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Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.
- Religion
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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
- End
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In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
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