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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
- Comics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read comics because of the art.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been my belief that creation, the making of 'art' in any medium or combination of mediums, is a holy act.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life and art are inseparable.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite-though-no-longer-thriving alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag, or, in those of the greatest egos, to be 'the next Andy Warhol.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020