- 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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.
- Cheeks
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- Nov 07, 2020
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.
- Originality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
- Education
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If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education.
- Compromised
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020